I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature. - Russell Banks Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music. - Bjork I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do. - Carrie Brownstein As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien. - Gavin Bryars I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. I wrote a lot of stories and poetry and... I...

No man, said the Nolan, can be a lover of the true or the good unless he abhors the multitude; and the artist, though he may employ the crowd, is very careful to isolate himself. - James Joyce The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails. - James Joyce The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question. - James Joyce In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god. - Josef Albers It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this. - Steve Albini That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward. - Ernest Hemingway Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performan...

I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to have leisure to write. But starvation, unfortunately, didn't improve art. It only hindered it. A man's soul was rooted in his stomach. A man could write much better after eating a porterhouse steak and drinking a pint of whiskey than he could ever write after eating a nickel candy bar. The myth of the starving artist was a hoax. - Charles Bukowski If you see me sitting at a dining room table with a clean plate and bowl in front of me, you'll know it's because I'm a starving artist. I'm also thirsty, as my cup is also empty. - Jarod Kintz Another year is fast approaching. Go be that starving artist you're afraid to be. Open up that journal and get poetic finally. Volunteer. Suck it up and travel. You were not born here to work and pay taxes. You were put here to be part of a vast organism to explore and create. Stop putting it off. The world has much ...

Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation... whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time. - Robert A Heinlein My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press. - Lena Dunham Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year. - Brad Holland New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter can...

Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain. - Mako I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts. - Lou Reed

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words. - Roy Ayers Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them. - Afrika Bambaataa If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it. If they think that there's a lot of racism going on then there's another Hip Hop artist who's gonna come out and speak their mind. - Afrika Bambaataa If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people like Robert De Niro are getting into production. Again, it's art vs. marketing. Not everyone can take the risk. You have to break a few eggs to make a good omelet. - Michael Winslow

I love doing logos. I've been a graphic artist all my life. - Tim Allen I've written 2 books, 3 short stories, and a Non-fiction Relationship Checklist! All this while being a mother, wife, sister, daughter and a friend! I'm also a kick ass graphic artist and have designed book covers for some of Amazon's top selling authors! - Junnita Jackson If there's anything I'm proud of in my work--it's not that I draw better; there's so many better graphic artists than me--or that I write better, no. It's--and I'm not saying I know the truth, because what the hell is that? But what I got from Ruth and Dave, a kind of fierce honesty, to not let the kid down, to not let the kid get punished, to not suffer the child to be dealt with in a boring, simpering, crushing-of-the-spirit kind of way. - Maurice Sendak

Law breaking, graffiti artist, dumb jock that I am, I'm pretty socially conscious. - Duff Goldman Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It's the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted by a graffiti artist. - Mia Kirshner

I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors. - John Hench As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words. - John Langdon Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life. - Norman Rockwell I've always been a fine artist. - Joey Skaggs

Like a stage magician, the con artist misdirects suspicion. While everyone's watching for him to pull a rabbit out of a hat, he's actually sawing a girl in half. You think he's doing one trick when he's actually doing another. You think that I'm dying, but I'm laughing at you. - Holly Black But the downside of being con artist is that it very hard to con. Even if the lies you tell are to yourself. - Ally Carter The risks in antiques fraud are relative. Other criminals risk the absolute. You've never heard of a fraudster involved in a shoot-out, of the "Come and get me, copper!" sort. Or of some con artist needing helicopter gunships to bring him. No, we subtle-mongers do it with the smile, the promise, the hint. And we have one great ally: greed. And make no mistake. Greed is everywhere, like weather. - Jonathan Gash I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't...