Art Quote by Amy Sillman

I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist

— Shelley Duvall

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

— Rainn Wilson

I was always an emotional, tearful kid. As a child I was really focussed on my fine art - I took it very seriously.…

— Marissa Nadler

As a child I'd sit at dinner parties with artists, authors and musicians, some of the best people in their fields. I couldn't avoid…

— Anoushka Shankar

At the very beginning of my career I felt very strongly about what type of artist I wanted to be.

— Miranda Lambert

My mother always told me I would be an artist.

— Princess Stephanie of Monaco

I was born knowing that I had to be a painter, because my father, an art historian, always presented painting as the only acceptable…

— Domenico Gnoli

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush.

— Sylvester Stallone

I became an artist because I couldn't become anything else.

— Mati Klarwein

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.

— Andy Warhol

When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.

— Jonathan Pryce

Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an 'artist', i.e., somebody whose adult job was original…

— David Foster Wallace