The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation. ↗
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him. ↗
Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed over there for a long time. A lot of them moved over there, lived over there, and died over there. ↗
A lot of artists are much more concerned about how their work is used and how it's disseminated. That, to artists, is as important as the money, for some people. ↗