Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
Nancy Pelosi

I'm an artist and I can draw very well. I'm amazed that everybody can't draw well because I can do it so effortlessly.
Jerry Lawler

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher

Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.
Marshall McLuhan

Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist.
John Legend

I think older people can appreciate my music because I really show my heart when I sing, and it's not corny. I think I can grow as an artist, and my fans will grow with me.
Justin Bieber

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
Orson Welles

If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.
Buddy Rich

Within two weeks of working with her, I realized how good she was for the role because she was absolutely with it and she has got terrific instincts, I think, as an artist, too.
Albert Finney

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
Salman Rushdie

Well, from an acting point of view, I bear no relation, I don't look like Alfred Kinsey at all, but I thought somewhere in my artist's soul, my actor's soul, I could capture something of the spirit of the man.
Liam Neeson

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.
Mick Jagger

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
Lord Acton

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
Karl Lagerfeld

As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.
Tom Ford

I am just an artist.
Andres Serrano

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.
Vaclav Havel

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