Amount Quote by John Banville

We truly experienced a lot as artists.

— Yui Mizuno

Artists make our lives livable and enjoyable.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

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

— Eric Fischl

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

A lot of artists don't survive, do they? You work very hard and finally you get what you want and it destroys you.

— Joyce Johnson

“Our first job as artists, then, is to venture out, away from what we think we know in search of the new and unexplored.…

— Jeff Goins

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

Because we all just function, the rest of us, just go to work and come home; artists make life bearable. They give perspectives on…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work…

— Diana Krall

Being an artist is not only what you do, but how you live your life.

— Ben Shahn

The life of an artist is not all glamorous. It's a lot of work. A lot of people think that it's very easy.

— Selena

Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.

— Linus Torvalds