Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.

A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit.

— Jean Helion

“A young artist's career is a matter of claiming a place for oneself, of saying, "I am here." Having gone through that phase, a…

— Wafaa Bilal

I think as a mature artist, you're probably always trying to undo the compromises of one's self [in general]. It's not necessarily to do…

— Kate Bush

Only the mature artist who works from a model is capable of seeing the body for itself, only he has the opportunity for prolonged…

— Philip Pearlstein

I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.

— Maria Callas

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

— Lionel Trilling

At a time when painting itself often seems to be a threatened, even despised, form of artistic activity, Andrew Salgado emerges as a dazzlingly…

— Edward Lucie-Smith

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself…

— Marya Mannes

A mature mind is one who understands the impossibility of knowing the ultimate, and with this understanding there is a new dimension: the dimension…

— Rajneesh

They always say girls mature faster than boys, but I don't think that's true because I think girls just are more mature than boys.…

— Rob Reiner

I like to think I'm a very mature person.

— Joel Courtney

Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.

— Bill Gates

Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“To be mature is, we're told, to move beyond possessiveness. Jealousy is for babies. The mature person knows that no one owns anyone.”

— Alain de Botton

When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were…

— Sabrina Claudio