Being an artist Quotes · Page 3

When you devote yourself to being an artist, you have to stay on your craft and always try to get better and…

— Raekwon

Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.

— Youssou N'Dour

Being an artist means belonging to a unique, exciting gang of outlaws.

— Robert Venosa

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.

— Bruce Springsteen

The awesome thing about being an artist? You can't be fired from your own mind.

— Rose McGowan

Women are emotional! And being an artist and a woman is probably more difficult because you have more stuff to overcome.

— Chris Johnson

This is a very general understanding of art in China, that being an artist can make you money and turn you into…

— Ai Weiwei

Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.

— Keariene Muizz

One of the beauties of being an artist is that you can create a whole new world, with circumstances that are better…

— Maurice Sendak

Some people don't think that what I do is art - but for me art exists by definition. The beautiful and most…

— Paul Rusconi

Being an artist and a musician, I have witnessed the previous generation taking the art form, not as a way of making…

— David Finckel

It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible…

— Dirk Benedict

A true artist could and should create till the day they die. You don't ever fail as an artist until you quit…

— Christian Keiber

I hadn't known anything else, other than being an artist, and I needed to be a person for a while, really get…

— Tove Styrke

The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile,…

— Paulo Freire

That's just a part of being an artist: you can't write great stuff all the time, because if you did, then you'd…

— Elton John

So I don't think being an artist you can ever satisfy - the moment you do get satisfied is the moment you're…

— Derek Cianfrance

Being an artist is not exactly the most universally respected, or secure thing to do with your life. It can be frightening…

— Joan Osborne

I think some of the most beneficial things being an artist has brought to me in film is just you're not afraid…

— Common

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

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

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

My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous…

— Rainn Wilson

“As an artist, i live in fantasy and flirt with reality. I'm an emotional magician of sorts. I paint my feelings onto…

— Jaeda DeWalt

“Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.”

— Annette Messager

For me, being an artist with a high profile is a good thing for art.

— Tracey Emin

artists ... all have a need that cannot be met by another human being.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.

— Ai Weiwei

Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.

— Laurie Anderson

It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art,

— Daniel Alarcon

I'm terminally dissatisfied. That's probably part of being an artist.

— Jared Leto

That's part of being an artist; you have to be that sensitive.

— Margaret Cho

Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet.

— Luc Delahaye

Being an artist is not only what you do, but how you live your life.

— Ben Shahn

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

My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.

— Jeannette Walls

Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's…

— Marina Abramovic

I think that being an artist is more an approach to life than an approach to work.

— Andrew Levitas

If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.

— Seth Godin

Sometimes being an artist is a real drag. It can be incredibly bureaucratic.

— Micah Lexier