The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist. – Salman Rushdie
I tell my friends about my conversations with my father – conversations with an artist. – Ray Conniff
I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me. – Ralph Steadman
It’d be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he’s not talented. I don’t think anybody really believes that, but sometimes it feels that way. – Oscar Isaac
As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works. – Peter Doig
The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer. – Robin Gross
If brands can find a voice that matches them, and the artist embraces it, they can find a way that would serve them that doesn’t feel like a sellout to the artists and has dramatic impact for the brand. – Patrick Whitesell
On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism. – Robert Delaunay
I trained as an artist originally, so I know what a nice human body looks like, and I would like to look like that notion, and of course I never will. But I’ve got past that. – Richard Griffiths
I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I’m not a jazz artist. So I got to the club and spotted this big poster saying, ‘Richie Havens, folk jazz artist.’ Then I’d go to a rock club and I’m billed as a ‘folk rock performer’ and in the blues clubs I’d be a ‘folk blues entertainer.’ – Richie Havens
The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator… Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say. – Octavio Paz
The workman in the true sense of the word – the artist in guns – is either extinct, or hidden in an obscure corner. There is no individuality about modern guns. One is exactly like another. – Richard Jefferies
The whole thrust of modern art, as far as I understand it, is expanding the role of the artist as a kind of esthetician, someone who actually spends his time, is trained in a way to deal with qualities. – Robert Irwin
Though I played classical piano since age 5 and sang in a cappella groups, being an artist didn’t seem like something I was talented enough to do full time. So I kind of buried that dream. – Rachel Platten
I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I’m not a trained artist, I couldn’t sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone. – Rene Auberjonois
Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality. – Oscar Wilde
There is actually no such thing as an Artist type. ‘Artist’ is just an economic designation, a box you tick on a form. We are all people, and we are all creative. – Russell Smith
Part of my success with urban bachata is reinventing yourself as an artist and continuing to give people different kind of fusions, mixing up the elements and concepts without changing the beat. – Romeo Santos
When I was 9 years old, I really wanted to be in the show business. I really wanted to be an artist. I would grab a wooden spoon and I would start singing, even if it was for my uncles and my aunts. And I would just sing any lah-lah song. – Ricky Martin
The first single I released, ‘Anything Goes,’ is probably one of the best-written songs I’ve heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I’m going through. – Randy Houser
From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it. – Reynolds Price
