Amount Quote by Alicia Witt

The arts are a major life nourishment.

— Kiran Ahluwalia

Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people.

— Maureen Forrester

Art is not a career - it's a life.

— Andy Goldsworthy

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I was told growing up that the arts were just a hobby - that I couldn't do it as a career.

— Mena Massoud

It's hard to make a living in any of the arts. When most people think of artists, they think of the stars and the…

— Isabella Rossellini

The hardest part of art-making is living your life in such a way that your work gets done-over and over-and that means, among other…

— David Bayles

Art is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it!

— Rick Sutter

“Artistic careers seem to attract a disproportionately high ratio of people with dysfunctional backgrounds, odd upbringings, multiple hang-ups, and exotic emotional deficiencies. In other…

— Graeme Thomson

I spent much of my college life prepping for other careers, but I was always drawing and painting whenever I had free time. Eventually,…

— Julie Dillon

The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out…

— Edvard Munch

You really can't pigeon hole yourself into one particular artistic area any more; the days of one vocation in the arts have long gone.

— Adrian Dunbar