Any Quote by Patti Smith

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be…

— Nick Cave

Being an artist is a job for life.

— Brian Eno

To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and…

— Marvin Gaye

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

— Laurence Gartel

It is a lifetime effort to come to grips with being an artistic person.

— Billy Cannon

I feel, as artists, our duty is to keep working and keep making whatever we believe in.

— Sunil Grover

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

— Richard Avedon

No amount of technical knowledge and competence is, of itself, sufficient to make a craftperson into an artist. That requires caring - passionate caring…

— Freeman Patterson

It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art,

— Daniel Alarcon

It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others. We can…

— Julia Cameron

Artists who say that they're artists: usually people who need a job.

— Doug Stanhope

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

— Keith Jarrett