Ambition Quote by Walter J. Phillips

The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.

— Damien Hirst

Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge…

— Marina Abramovic

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This…

— Mark Rothko

I have no wish to be remembered as a painter, for I never was a painter; my idea of that profession was perhaps too…

— Samuel Morse

It takes a long time to make a painter - even with a good artist's education - but without one it tries the patience…

— Edward Lear

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to…

— William Faulkner

The artist should always be the student.

— Edgar Alwin Payne

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable…

— Lucian Freud

The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an…

— Nick Cave

A painter doesn't need any talent. In fact, it's better not to have it.

— Georg Baselitz

“A real education will not teach you to compete; it will teach you to cooperate. It will not teach you to fight and come…

— Osho

“He had been a boy who liked to draw, according to my friend, so he became an architect. Children who drew,I learned, became architects;…

— Annie Dillard