Art Quote by Kelly Carlin-McCall

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

— Eric Fischl

I always knew that I was an artist. I never expected to be able to make a living.

— Lynn Shelton

I became an artist because I couldn't become anything else.

— Mati Klarwein

This image of wanting to be an artist - that I would in some way become an artist -was very strong. I knew for…

— Jasper Johns

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

Something in me was instinctively drawn to the life of a misunderstood, brilliant and wilful artist. I wanted to become one.

— John Lloyd Young

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

— Ben Shahn

If you trusted that your art was going to support your life, how would you live?

— Danielle LaPorte

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

— Kelly Lynch

Being an artist is a job for life.

— Brian Eno

If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It's no fun being an artist. You know what it's…

— John Lennon

And the part about being a professional artist is that you can tell, and you can do it over again, even if you can't…

— Bruce Nauman