This is a very general understanding of art in China, that being an artist can make you money and turn you into… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes. — Keariene Muizz Copy Share Image
“Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.” — Annette Messager Copy Share Image
The one thing about being a creator, about being an artist, is that you get to explore your ideas. We're fortunate that… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
There's this privileged position of being an artist where you can do things on a more experimental nature simply to see what… — Andrea Zittel Copy Share Image
My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man. He hoped I would see my… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
The best thing about being an artist, instead of a madman or someone who writes letters to the editor, is that you… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films,… — Bruce Conner Copy Share Image
Everybody needs a release. Sometimes people mosh at my shows. That inspired me to make records to get the people more crunk.… — Yelawolf Copy Share Image
The whole point of being an artist is to have no agenda. To say, you know, I don't know what I am… — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
To be born with a unique instinct, will demand 'unique duties'. If you didn't think about being an artist before 7 years… — David Luiz Copy Share Image
In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Everything I wanted before, I want twice as much now. And that doesn't mean material things; it means to explore more, to… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
Being an artist doesn’t take much, just everything you got. Which means, of course, that as the process is giving you life,… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists. There are good things and bad things about being an artist, and the good thing is,… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I think part of being an artist is having the ability to define your own responsibilities. I certainly wouldn't prescribe any. As… — Pierre Coupey Copy Share Image
When you have a dream, you don't even want to tell yourself straight out that this is what you want. You try… — Rita Ackermann Copy Share Image
It [lighting the set up] is quite a process. It's like drawing. It's like being an artist. You pencil it in first,… — Robert Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Working a model liberated me from ever having to hold a day job. I transitioned from doing that to working full-time as… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
The past is part of the present, is part of the future, it's all part of being an artist. You cannot be… — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
One of the beauties of being an artist is that you can create a whole new world, with circumstances that are better… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I never stop being a mother and I never stop being an artist. You understand? Which is probably why my kids are… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
I loved being a child. If I do have a talent, it's not so much being an artist, but it's being able… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
I just really feel so grateful to Sundance because I've always been an artist and I've never been able to make a… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced… — Beverly Pepper Copy Share Image
Maybe being an artist is a kind of detachment. You're in the cave, you're isolated, you're apart from everything and it's there… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
Being an artist and having to be responsible for the art that you make is really quite challenging, and as you get… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
The only thing that I am concerned with in life is being an artist .. I had to suppress for so many… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Being an artist, it's always tempting to measure success through other people's eyes, be they critics, journalists or audiences. — Sara Blecher Copy Share Image
Being an artist isn't a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It's an attitude we can all adopt. It's a hunger to… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist - that it's a… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
Being an artist for my well being and as a living, I live in a place of observance and interest in what… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
It was a natural path for me, being an artist. Both my parents were artists. I was surrounded by it and I… — Arik Roper Copy Share Image
I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We all have our insecurity and that's normal. And you have to learn to accept that about being an artistic person or… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
I'm a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm… — Usher Copy Share Image
The easy part of being an artist is figuring out the message that everyone else is ready to hear. The hard part… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can… — Sam Taylor-Wood Copy Share Image
Once I started reinventing for myself what being an artist was - not going into a studio, but making things on my… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
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