All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt – you know, I’m an artist, man, I don’t do that family stuff – has begun to seem really important. – Rick Moody
I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I’m going to make a country album. – R. Kelly
I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an Asian artist to succeed if he or she follows his or her own culture. – Rain
I’ve been touring for so long, I’ve kind of honed into exactly what I am, I’m an artist so if you like it, you like it, if you don’t you don’t, you know? – Paul McDonald
The first album was a very successful record. It made me very visible and it’s an immediate association, but I don’t do that anymore. Now I’m true to myself as an artist again. I’m more vocally oriented. – Phoebe Snow
In many museums, you see one of this and one of that. You gain an understanding of what Abstract Expressionism or Minimalism is, but you aren’t given the chance to appreciate the mind of an artist. – Robert J. Fisher
I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I’m sure Leonardo Da Vinci did that. Artists don’t always feel the same as others feel about their work. – Roy Ayers
When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting. – Roma Downey
Because fashion essentially is art, and as an artist and someone who is also a musician and an artist in regards to drawing and painting, anything I can do that expresses my feelings is something I’m really drawn to. – Ruby Rose
I liked the name Saadiq and didn’t want to be known as an artist as Raphael Wiggins. – Raphael Saadiq
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. – Oscar Wilde
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry. – Salman Rushdie
When you’re an artist, you can only do your own stuff. Even if you only write for other people, you’re really more focused on yourself. So while everybody’s out touring, I’m working on records. – Rico Love
To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perceptions. – Robert Irwin
I’m very much involved in art. I started buying art a few years ago and really like the work of T.C. Cannon, who is a native American artist. Then I was introduced to Soviet-era Russian impressionism and started collecting that, especially Gely Korzhev. – Ronnie Dunn
In television, the 60-minute series, ‘The Wire’ and ‘Mad Men’ and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist. – Salman Rushdie
I would love to do Broadway the rest of my life! Because it’s challenging, because it makes me grow as an actor, as an entertainer, as an artist, and that’s what I need; that’s what I’m hooked on. – Ricky Martin
You continue to evolve with each album that goes by and, as an artist, you continue to expand with every recording project. – Randy Travis
As an artist, I’ve always felt most comfortable outside of the art supply store. So domestic materials are the ones that most help inform what I’m trying to talk about and our familiarity as a whole – kind of the collective us, I guess. – Rashid Johnson
When I wrote for Jordan Knight, I was 17 or 18, they were pretty much the only songs I was writing. By the time people like Christina or Usher came around, I was able to know that I was writing for different points of view and people that might not want to say certain things. So you have to be considerate of whichever artist you’re writing for. – Robin Thicke
I was a painter before I was a writer, so I was always a visual artist. And my writing, to me, was always visual. – Peter Landesman
I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business. – Ray Stevens
I don’t want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don’t want to be an artist who people look back at and say, ‘His early work was really great.’ – Ryan McGinley
You know, Simon he’s an artist representative, but Randy and Paula actually were in the industry as artists so they had, you know, the information that they offered to us from their aspect. – Ruben Studdard
A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant – rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance – but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself. – Roberto Burle Marx
