“An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.”
“But artists didn't need to achieve "firsts", and Hughes wanted to be an artist.”
“No artist knows everything (yea, even this artist - piss-artist, con-artist, body-artist) but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.”
“You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.”
“There are things the artist intends, and things the viewer sees, and what the viewer sees isn't always what the artist intends. Isn't always apparent upon first viewing.”
“A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.”