Groups Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

I have to live authentically at all times. And that's part of what makes me an artist. I'm not scared to do that.

— Estelle

No, the thing to do is try to make a painting that will be alive in your own lifetime.

— Marcel Duchamp

I think it would be very difficult to maintain one kind of art or whatever for your whole life. I think it's unrealistic.

— Sia Furler

Painting is just a hobby. I really don't think of it much more than that. But writing music and writing words... my life would…

— Stephen Hough

A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it.

— Lila Acheson Wallace

I frequently lock myself in my studio. I do not often see the people I love, and in the end I shall suffer for…

— Edgar Degas

Most people say, "Hell, no. I don't know who you are. This scares me. Like, I'm not interested in this."Another way of looking at…

— Kehinde Wiley

I could always live in my art but never in my life

— Ingmar Bergman

People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the…

— Anonymous

All my life I have painted pictures so that certain people would drop dead when they looked at them, but I have not succeeded…

— Man Ray

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

— Joan Osborne

Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to…

— Max Beckmann