Artist Quote by Janet Fish

I didn't make any money out of my art until I was in my 40s, but it preserved my sanity and my freedom.

— Cornelia Parker

I was always interested in drawing and painting. I enrolled in college to study painting. But I didn't have any livelihood when I graduated.…

— Stuart Franklin

Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

— Ralph Bakshi

I was an arts student. I did graphic design. Being an artist, I did a lot of paintings. I have always had that creative…

— Gauri Khan

I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was…

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.

— Julianna Margulies

I was an artist - I fancied myself an artist - I sold paintings at bars to pay my rent.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

I would always be painting and drawing. If I was stuck at home, I was in the basement working on a painting.

— Terry Crews

I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artist…..I had lost all interest in the art…

— Jean Dubuffet

I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and I did it out of spite.

— Vincent Gallo

I realized that most people waste their lives earning a living, and I wanted to live. I love painting, so I keep painting. That's…

— Pierre Soulages