Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.
In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.
I'm basically a starving artist.
I was planning on being a starving artist.
I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.
When you're a starving artist, you make do. It didn't matter that I didn't know where my rent was coming from.
I didn't really go the starving-artist route. I kind of went and did massive, commercial things.
I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse.
When we say, 'We are starving,' we have to remember that there are people who are literally starving. If everyone fed one person, one meal, we could make a huge difference.
It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else.
If you looked at my resume in the years leading up to Flickr, I worked in a dive shop in landlocked Arkansas; I was a starving artist. I just arrived at the thing I love to do accidentally.
Starving for a high, a place to hang out inside my own head. Starving for touch. Pain, even. A way to feel. I need to feel.
Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
We have food all around us all the time, and if we haven't eaten for three hours, we think we're starving. You're not starving - human beings can go for 30 days without food.
It's really hard to find materials. Also, prices of metal have gone completely through the roof, insanely expensive. And if you go to a dictionary and look up starving artist, you'll see my picture.