Art Quote by Junot Diaz

Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an 'artist', i.e., somebody whose adult job was original…

— David Foster Wallace

Artists have a sensibility that others don't have. They have a way of reading into the future.

— John Elkann

I didn't expect to become an artist. I was not comfortable going out on the road.

— Todd Rundgren

The problem turned out to be that I never was that kind of an artist.

— Todd Rundgren

I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and…

— Gerald Scarfe

I always knew that I was an artist. I never expected to be able to make a living.

— Lynn Shelton

I became an artist because I couldn't become anything else.

— Mati Klarwein

Some of you are doomed to be artists.

— Martha Graham

And it's always the same kind of artist, I think, who has more enjoyment being slightly on the outside of things, who doesn't want…

— David Bowie

I want so many artists that I care about to go away and grow up, and have been amazed at how hard that is…

— David Berman

I wasn't born an artist. I was really good in science as a kid. I probably shouldn't have been an artist because I'm much…

— Julie Delpy

Back when I was in college, people used to talk about the alienation of the artist, not ever quite fitting in any place.

— Marilyn Nelson