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I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history

— Judy Chicago

I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is…

— Jack Kirby

How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing

— George Grosz

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

— Sam Taylor-Wood

“I do believe most curators - maybe I'm only speaking for myself here - want to be artists on some level. Curators must have…

— Marion Boulton Stroud

I began collecting artwork as a way to help young artists to promote their work as well as to increase awareness of contemporary art…

— Yusaku Maezawa

We take inspiration from multiple different artists.

— Ellie Rowsell

“AN ARTIST IS FIRST AN AMATEUR”

— Henry David Thoreau

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part…

— Ezra Pound

Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work.

— Harold Rosenberg

I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

— Claire Bloom

I don't necessarily make much art myself, but after I wrote 'Warped Passages,' I was fortunate to get involved a little in the art…

— Lisa Randall