Art Quote by Kara Walker

Becoming an artist cannot be taught. A degree and diligence is not a guarantee that one can become an 'artist.

— Scott Kahn

“A degree in art doesn’t automatically make you an artist any more than lacking a degree precludes you from becoming an artist.”

— Ted Orland

To be an artist is to take responsibility for the world's destiny. You shape it by your vision.

— Laurence Gartel

You cant be an artist without going to art school. Its impossible. Art schools like being plunged into a sheep dip that inoculates you…

— Grayson Perry

I just feel like everyone and their mother thinks they can be an artist. You can't. Sorry. I know I was born to be…

— Paz de la Huerta

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

— Wayne Thiebaud

Purely by hard work, one can become an artist.

— Robert Fripp

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

— Richard Avedon

Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a Mickey Mouse degree that…

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

— Janet Fitch

Being an artist is a job for life.

— Brian Eno

To be an 'artist' is as much a calling from and to a divine service as becoming a physician, nurse, priest, shaman, or healer.

— Genesis P-Orridge