April Quote by Friedrich Schiller

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

— Jasper Johns

I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste.

— Kelly Lynch

Sometimes as an artist you get wrapped up in what you are doing and you can't be objective.

— Joe Nichols

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

— Richard Avedon

I'm an artist because of how I do things, not because I'm trying to be one.

— The-Dream

I didn't want to be an artist in the same place I worked. You could always have people that might feel like you would…

— DJ Khaled

Being an artist means being unapologetically yourself, and I get to be that now.

— Raye

Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.

— Ai Weiwei

You give yourself permission to be the person you want to be, the artist you want to be, no matter what your circumstances!

— Jill Eikenberry

I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.

— Mary Gordon

I could never even entertain the notion that it's an option, to not be an artist.

— Dustin Yellin

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