Academia Quote by Derek R. Audette

“The paradox of being a professional artist. How we spend our lives trying to express ourselves well, but we have nothing to tell. We…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Those who are to follow the arts should have a training in what is called poverty. Given a comfortable middle-class start in life, the…

— Sherwood Anderson

“There are no guarantees that if you work hard enough, or are talented enough, that you will be successful, be able to support yourself,…

— Jessica Todd Harper

It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others. We can…

— Julia Cameron

When you do your art, and you may think people don't recognize it or appreciate it, you actually go and try to get better.

— No I.D

You're always taught that the world is so competitive. You're taught that it's not very likely for you to become successful and that odds…

— Kali Uchis

When you devote yourself to being an artist, you have to stay on your craft and always try to get better and better.

— Raekwon

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

— Vincent D'Onofrio

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

— Richard Avedon

Proficiency in art is a contract with your self and the empowerment of your self. Not all of us demand or even desire proficiency,…

— Paul Gauguin

“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

“Part of what attracts us to artists is their otherness, their refusal to conform, their big middle finger stuck up in the face of…

— Jesse Kellerman