Being an artist Quotes

As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.

— Brian Eno

Being an artist is supposed to be a scam, not a career.

— Wade Guyton

When an artist stops being a child, he stops being an artist.

— Isamu Noguchi

I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.

— Damian Loeb

Being an artist is a job for life.

— Brian Eno

Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

— Marc Chagall

Being an artist is celebrating life.

— Henry Moore

Being an artist is a lifestyle.

— Wayne White

“In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.”

— William Faulkner

I feel like fashion and style is a big part of being an artist.

— Chanel West Coast

The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!

— Auguste Rodin

Being an artist, its all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie.

— Graeme Base

It is a lifetime effort to come to grips with being an artistic person.

— Billy Cannon

Not any particular religion or school of religion, but being an artist, you have to be spiritual, in a way.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist.

— Shirley Knight

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

The best thing about being an artist, instead of a madman or someone who writes letters to the editor, is that you…

— Anne Lamott

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

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

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

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

Everybody needs a release. Sometimes people mosh at my shows. That inspired me to make records to get the people more crunk.…

— Yelawolf

With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films,…

— Bruce Conner

I never considered myself an artist. I aspire to be an artist, but I never thought I had the depth or substance…

— Woody Allen

Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected... In teaching it's…

— Pierre Alechinsky

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

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

I never stopped being a mother, and I never stopped being an artist. Which is probably why my kids are so creative.…

— Jada Pinkett Smith

“Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it.…

— Charlotte Eriksson

I think that the whole experience of living, breathing, thinking, and being lost in wonderment is, for me, that of being an…

— Tony Shafrazi

I am just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City and my grandparents were wheat farmers. I thought painting, acting, directing and…

— Dennis Hopper

“I don't create my images as visual equations to be solved, but rather, i create them as internal landscapes that the viewer…

— Jaeda DeWalt

In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced…

— Beverly Pepper

Wolfe was drinking beer and looking at pictures of snowflakes in a book someone had sent him from Czechoslovakia... ...Wolfe seemed absorbed…

— Rex Stout

I study everything that I do to become better all the time at my craft. The beauty for me about being an…

— Lady Gaga

I was doing great plays. It wasn't changing the world. I was getting good agents and doing film and TV and I…

— Rainn Wilson

I started blogging because I didn't know if I wanted to be an artist. I wanted to talk to other people online…

— Toyin Odutola

Somewhere within all of us is a wordless center, a part of us that hopes to be immortal in some way, a…

— Richard Schmid

The Illusionist is the storyteller in so many ways. Symbols become his obsession. It's not simply about creating plot - one must…

— Porochista Khakpour

Who can keep us from recreating our life as we would like it to be-as it could, and should be? No one…

— Surya Das