Always Quote by Alan Menken

As artists, we can't help but infuse our art with our own experience, so your experience becomes informative.

— Rachel Morrison

A writer, or any artist, can’t expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because you have…

— Patti Smith

The interesting part about being an artist is that the ways in which you express yourself are not always readily available.

— Chris Sullivan

Sometimes when you're an artist, you need to be in your own head; you need to stay in it to be able to get…

— Santigold

When you know who you are as an artist and you have your own identity and got it figured out it helps you know…

— Keifer Thompson

It's funny: when you're an artist, your own work goes in and out of fashion with you.

— Laurie Simmons

What people don't understand is that how you are as an artist depends on how you are emotionally.

— Ellie Goulding

As a writer, there is only so much of your own life you can draw on.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

When I write for myself, I think about myself and draw from my own experience.

— Bonnie McKee

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

— Kevin Smith

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

— Henry Rollins

Im an artist of my own story

— Kathy