A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist. Norman Ralph Augustine
After I left college I thought, very naively, that either you became someone interesting - an artist - or you went into academia. If you ended up in an office you were dull and lacking. And I ended up in an office. Joshua Ferris
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's. J . D. Salinger
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski
As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist. Margaret Atwood
As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be. Janet Fitch
Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making. Sugar Ray Leonard
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor. Ernest Hemingway
Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out. Anthony Bourdain
Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer. Willa Cather
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. Oscar Wilde
For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian. Ama Ata Aidoo
How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows. Annie Dillard
I am practical by nature, and I'd heard that being a writer or an artist is a good way to starve! So I was an economics major at Oklahoma State, and then received an M.S. from Cornell in Agricultural Resource and Managerial Economics. I knew if I wanted to write I would do it on my own, but I knew I wouldn't make myself study economics on my own. Ally Carter
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