We should self-examine and talk about things like our own white privilege and these phony senses of being an artist. — Geoff Rickly Copy Share Image
Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when… — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
I can't imagine anybody who ends up being an artist who didn't pass through a time of geekiness. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The words. I love words. I love to write. Being an artist is what I love. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed. — John Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Being an artist, its all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie. — Graeme Base Copy Share Image
The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist! — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
I had my little teenage craziness where I wanted to be a doctor, I admit. I have to confess at one point… — Mathieu Demy Copy Share Image
Being an artist, I had an artist's instincts.You can see the picture before it's taken; then it's up to you to get… — James Van Der Zee Copy Share Image
I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a… — Antonio Banderas Copy Share Image
The unique essence of being an artist is dying. Eveything looks the same. Now there’s a formula. And it works. - But… — Usher Copy Share Image
What's exciting about being an artist, still, and what I'm really finding is awesome is that you can do it until you… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
Being a songwriter requires versatility while being an artist requires you to create a cohesive body of work. I truly enjoy both. — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It's no fun being an artist. You know… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
All you can do as an artist is do what you think is an extension of you. You put down on paper… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
I think some of the most beneficial things being an artist has brought to me in film is just you're not afraid… — Common Copy Share Image
Being an artist is not exactly the most universally respected, or secure thing to do with your life. It can be frightening… — Joan Osborne Copy Share Image
As a kid, I wanted to be an inventor and realizing that being an artist is like being an inventor because you… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
My mother really didn't come from artists. Her famous quote to me was, "The only artists I've ever heard of are dead."… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in… — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Copy Share Image
Being an artist is two things. You accumulate experience and time, and if you have something that's interesting, you have to be… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
Artists no longer starve in garrets. Some people may think this is not wholly a good thing, that being an artist has… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
I never had any intention nor interest in being an artist, but when I made work I realized that this was my… — Paul Rusconi Copy Share Image
I was worried that I, the artist Morimura, would have conflicts with the participating artists and develop a strenuous relationship with them.… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
Exhibitions of minority art are often intended to make the minority itself more aware of its collective experience. Reinforcing the common memory… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
In this there is no measuring with time, a year doesn’t matter, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means: not… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“The creative process is a love story that never ends. The ideas are like suitors competing for your attention. You may have… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
“In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist. — Shirley Knight Copy Share Image
Not any particular religion or school of religion, but being an artist, you have to be spiritual, in a way. — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
It is a lifetime effort to come to grips with being an artistic person. — Billy Cannon Copy Share Image
Sometimes being an artist means knowing when to let someone see something in you that is there that you can't hear or… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet. — Luc Delahaye Copy Share Image
Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It keeps us honest. — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan. — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
