I'm thankful for the big stuff of course-my family, health, human kindness. But I'm also thankful that I don't have to work for Hollywood anymore.
I'm a sign painter with no boss.
I had to learn to do stuff only for myself, and stop thinking about pleasing some imaginary client or boss. It's a habit that many artists get into that have worked in commercial ventures.
The only tip I have for an artist is perseverance... Never give up.
As far as I'm concerned, there is no line between high art and pop art, and there should be no line.
Artists are people who create beauty. That's the bottom line.
It would be really embarrassing to introduce yourself as somebody who makes beauty.
People that are born beautiful like supermodels act like entitled a**holes. It makes you embarrassed just to see 'em. They handle beauty embarrassingly.
When we see something beautiful it calls up raw, naked emotion and that's an embarrassing situation to be in.
Making art is nothing but risk, always. If it's not risk, it's no good.
When I commit to working with an artist, I give them as much respect as I would like and if I'm not going to commit that way, then I don't want to work with you.
I practice the artist's golden rule. I wouldn't want somebody telling me how to finish my painting, I'm not going to tell him how to finish his movie or how to shape his movie.
I'm just a mule with blinders on, I can't help myself.
All I do is work, that's all my life is work.
All I'm really concerned with is doing my thing.
I hate people who act too cool for school. Just own up to it, dude.
I hate the whole group of artists who are so hermetic and completely indecipherable on some level and they're all proud of themselves for it. It's like, how obnoxious, how pretentious. And that's part of my mission as an artist is to kick down those people or make fun of that type of high horse attitude.
It's about communication, no matter how impossibly hard your art is to understand and how much of an ivory tower or high horse you get on, it's still basically communication or why are you doing it?
I want to communicate. I do; every artist does. That's why you're an artist.
I have some sort of performing gene that's just there and I cannot explain it but I want to connect with people through a camera or on a stage. I just can do it. I just have an intuitive sense of it. So I love doing that, I love going into that trance.
Once the cameras rolling or the audience is in the seats, I'm on. I can't help it. I go into a trance.
When I perform I'm very extroverted and I wear my heart on my sleeve and some people don't like that. They're embarrassed for me.
I'm a perfectionist I guess. Everyone has to love me.
No matter how much I'm on and people are loving me, there's always some like, and it's usually a woman too, in the audience rolling her eyes, "Oh Wayne, you're embarrassing yourself." There's always someone like that.
I can't help it. I always focus in on the negative.
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