Art Quote by Hito Steyerl

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

— Ai Weiwei

Being an artist is two things. You accumulate experience and time, and if you have something that's interesting, you have to be persistent. That's…

— Michael C. McMillen

I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.

— Larry Rivers

I think that being an artist is more an approach to life than an approach to work.

— Andrew Levitas

Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so…

— Anonymous

I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting…

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I wasn't born an artist. I was really good in science as a kid. I probably shouldn't have been an artist because I'm much…

— Julie Delpy

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

— Kelly Lynch

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

— Eric Fischl

How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing

— George Grosz

It's really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I'm just not down with intellectualizing it. I just…

— FKA twigs

I don't see myself as an artist. I work with artists and collaborate with them, but then it becomes graphic design. It's not an…

— Vaughan Oliver