Lucian Freud’s career affirms that the only thing an artist can do is remain true to whatever vision, (lack of) talent, or ideas that happened to pick them in order to be made known to the world. – Jerry Saltz
Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the other artists living in your town: Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, or Titian. Is it any wonder that the Italian High Renaissance lasted only 30 years? – Jerry Saltz
I think every artist wants to have that ‘Grammy award winner’ tag in front of their name. – Jason Aldean
Any artist that’s involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do. – Jock Sturges
My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She’s an illustrator living in Manhattan. – Jeannette Walls
The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative. – Joseph Gordon-Levitt
‘Celebrity’ is sort of an idea. I mean, I get to do something extraordinary, but I don’t think it makes me extraordinary. That’s my opinion. I like to be an artist; I like to do things that are involved in the arts, but I don’t think it makes me more special than a doctor, for example. A doctor is an extraordinary person. – Justin Timberlake
I sometimes just don’t like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent. – Jackie Chan
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. – John Lithgow
In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god. – Josef Albers
Sometimes as an artist you get wrapped up in what you are doing and you can’t be objective. – Joe Nichols
Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age. – Jerry Saltz
What stop-motion does best is present real objects magically brought to life in a very imperfect situation; the hand of the artist is there, the electricity of someone touching, massaging and torturing themselves to get life out of an inanimate object. – Henry Selick
I mean, I’m an artist by nature; no one considers what I do and no one knows who the heck I am, but that anybody does – it is astonishing. – Junot Diaz
As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs. – James Bay
You can’t be the vulnerable, transparent, raw person required to be an artist, and then cover that stuff up and meet the world with some kind of armor on. It just doesn’t go. – Idina Menzel
I believe that ‘The Artist’ is the kind of movie you see and you don’t forget. I know it’s going to stay with me. – Judy Blume
It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead. Not power-ridden monuments, but individual buildings which tell a quieter story: the artist’s studio, or the Belle Epoque house built by a forgotten financier for a just-remembered courtesan. – Julian Barnes
There should be an element of mystique between the fans and the artist. That bit between the stage and the audience. I think that’s necessary. – James Bay
I remember when I first came out as an artist, back in 2004 or 2005, the record label used to take me to all the radio stations and just have me sit in, like, their lunchroom or their conference room, and play for the whole staff. Just to introduce them to me so they would play my records. – John Legend