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Why do visual artists 'work' and musicians 'play? -- Max Elliott Slade
At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth. -- Harry Seidler
The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary. -- Aberjhani
I'm a really visual artist, and I love writing treatments for music videos, photo shoots, fashion, and all the visual parts that go along with making an album. -- Bonnie McKee
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
Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find music that fits the world of that visual artist. -- Wayne McGregor
I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary. -- Jerry Saltz
Writers and musicians know well the importance of extensive reading for successful writing or extensive listening for musical composition. Likewise, visual artists... understand that successful artistic creativity depends upon extensive visual exposure. -- Paul Laseau
Well, as a visual artist working with the phenomenon of cinema, the grammar of cinema, [making a feature] was bound to happen. Everything I do is like sculpting with image and sound. -- Nicolas Provost
I think that a visual artist's philosophy develops much more freely than a writer's or a thinker's philosophy. It is not so disciplined. The photographer works with both his eyes and his mind. -- Manuel Alvarez Bravo
But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools. -- Buffy Sainte-Marie
My bottom line is that I think Ridley Scott is one of the greatest visual artists of our time and I feel very privileged that he wants to work with me, so I go with that flow. -- Russell Crowe
I have so much music that I do. Just like how a visual artist is always sketching something but they might not share it, I'm always writing songs or coming up with melodic lines on piano or guitar. It's therapy. It's always happening. -- Erykah Badu
A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars. -- Steve Albini
I often envy my friends who are visual artists. Visual artists have other things to work with. Other media. I envy my sculptor friends: they have hunks of matter. Marble. Wood. It's physical, which I find very appealing. What we have is nothing, is just glaringly blank. -- Dani Shapiro
Musically, it's difficult to believe Jim has only two hands and one set of vocal cords. You would think that there were a dozen of him if you closed your eyes and listened. From a visual artist's standpoint, Jim is a man of a thousand faces, all spellbinding. -- Jeff Mathews
I wanted to be a visual artist because I grew up around a lot of painters and photographers and had a very artistic upbringing. And I fantasized about being a drug-dealer when I was a kid. I thought it would be a good opportunity; I knew that the market would be strong. Is that bizarre? -- Jared Leto
I would have been a visual artist. When I was in high school, that was one of the things... I had to make a decision what I was going to go to college for, and at the time, I also painted and sculpted. I got more attention for my performing, so I thought that was a better idea. -- Josh Young
Most visual artists, just like most writers, tend to be solitary. While they're doing the art, that is. They may have a crazy orgy that morning, but at a certain point they kick everybody out, and say: "Come, go home. Yeah, I had a great time too." And then you're alone again, and then you're freshly inspired and energized. -- Eric Drooker
I feel the theatre is the most unique one of all [the arts] for collaboration. I feel very fortunate to be in a field where I really do get to have long conversations with the visual artists, the actors, the musicians. It's all art forms rolled into one and I feel very fortunate to be a part of it. -- Susan Stroman
[My photography teacher] gave me the Mexican Day Books of Edward Weston and just blew me away with this work. The fact that you could be this fabulous visual artist, with all this milieu of people like Diego Rivera and you could sleep with these gorgeous, amazing women, that you could live that life - that photography could deliver you that life. -- Max Pam
The most important thing to do as an artist is to get out of your comfort zone and work with different people: people who can't read a note of music, people who have incredible classical skills, blues and jazz musicians, pop artists, visual artists, dancers and actors. Learn from people who are creative in a different way to you and you'll keep evolving. -- Katie Noonan
Mark Ryden is my favorite visual artist. -- Melanie Martinez
My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual. -- Jeff Vandermeer
I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. -- P. J. Harvey
As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words. -- John Langdon
A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image. -- Roy H. Williams
Every artist who evolves a style does so from illusive elements that inhabit his or her visual storehouse. -- Mary Carroll Nelson
My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. -- Jeff Vandermeer
As an artist, my concern is toward the synthesizing of all the visual elements at my disposal - at the exclusion of none. -- Ken Danby
I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense. -- Siri Hustvedt
I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do. -- Carrie Brownstein
Me being able to be acting and doing other things has opened me as an artist, and I think even more from a visual standpoint. -- Common
I'm a visual artist myself and always have been so it's very natural for me to be very concerned with presentation, whether it's artwork or onstage. -- PJ Harvey
We are still struggling with people who don't feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can be part of enacting a change. -- Nick Cave
Beyonce is such a visual artist. This was just trying to figure out another side to her that could be fun and young and exciteful and a great video. -- Bryce Wilson
To me, as a visual artist, I don't want to get into the theory of Buddhism. There are many Buddhism theories and they fight each other, like Christians as well. -- Hiroshi Sugimoto
I have a commission to do a piece in a place in California, Oliver Ranch, which has an eight-storey structure called The Tower designed by the visual artist Ann Hamilton. -- Pauline Oliveros

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