Art Quote by Billy Bob Thornton

What experience has shown me is that it takes your life to become an artist.

— Eric Fischl

As an artist, you want to have an experience. What you need to experience changes over the course of your life because your life…

— Kiki Smith

Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other…

— Aleksa Palladino

You know, you become an artist, you become an observer, of life, and you digest life by making art about it.

— Liz Phair

Being creative and emotional, artistes sometimes go through difficult phases in life, but one has to look at life as a bigger canvas. It's…

— Saswata Chatterjee

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the…

— David Sanborn

I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.

— Julie Mehretu

I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.

— Francis Bacon

To be an artist is to believe in life.

— Henry Moore

Art becomes a spiritual process depending upon the degree of commitment that you bring to it. Every experience becomes direct food for your art.…

— Nick Bantock

“Being an artist doesn't take much. Just everything you got. Which means of course that as the process is giving you life, it is…

— Hubert Selby Jr

I don't want to have anything to say, it just gets in the way. I think the journey of an artist is a journey…

— Anish Kapoor