Being An Artist Quotes

This is a very general understanding of art in China, that being an artist can make you money and turn you into a star.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

For me, being an artist with a high profile is a good thing for art.

It became like a symbolic thing, to be “an artist.” After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.

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

I feel like fashion and style is a big part of being an artist.

A true artist could and should create till the day they die. You don't ever fail as an artist until you quit being an artist.

Not any particular religion or school of religion, but being an artist, you have to be spiritual, in a way.

That's the thing about being an artist, you don't have to take anyone else's perspective into account. You can act as self-indulgent in your emotions as you want.

The easy part of being an artist is figuring out the message that everyone else is ready to hear. The hard part is waiting for the proper lull to make the announcement.

If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.

The whole point of being an artist is to have no agenda. To say, you know, I don't know what I am going to do tomorrow, I don't know what it's going to look like, and I'm going to have a go at it.

I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.

I didn't think of being an artist until after I went away to boarding school. There were other things to be interested in. And it seemed like a nightmare.

We should self-examine and talk about things like our own white privilege and these phony senses of being an artist.

There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.

Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good.

As much as I love being an artist, I love being a mom even more.

There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist.

I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.

You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.

I think that being an artist is more an approach to life than an approach to work.

It was a natural path for me, being an artist. Both my parents were artists. I was surrounded by it and I instinctively was drawn toward it, and received a lot of encouragement.

As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.

Being an artist is a job for life.

Women are emotional! And being an artist and a woman is probably more difficult because you have more stuff to overcome.

I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.

Whether it's just the career path of doing independent music, being an artist, however you want to pigeon-hole it, it creates a certain type of character.

That's just a part of being an artist: you can't write great stuff all the time, because if you did, then you'd be inhuman. The human side of people is that sometimes they fail.

Part of the business of being an artist is abetting talent. The best do that.

[My mother] would have me smothered like the Princes in the Tower if I showed any inclination for being an artist. She thought all artists little better than lunatics.

I'm terminally dissatisfied. That's probably part of being an artist.

My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.

I can't imagine anybody who ends up being an artist who didn't pass through a time of geekiness.

I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?

Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.

I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.

Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.

I just really feel so grateful to Sundance because I've always been an artist and I've never been able to make a living at being an artist until Sundance.

That's part of being an artist; you have to be that sensitive.

The one thing about being a creator, about being an artist, is that you get to explore your ideas. We're fortunate that we're in the position to do that, and I don't take it for granted.

I had my little teenage craziness where I wanted to be a doctor, I admit. I have to confess at one point I considered even going to school. Hopefully, I went back on the right track being an artist.

One of the beauties of being an artist is that you can create a whole new world, with circumstances that are better in your invented world than they are in the real world.

Sometimes being an artist is a real drag. It can be incredibly bureaucratic.

Being an artist, it's always tempting to measure success through other people's eyes, be they critics, journalists or audiences.

There's no map for being an artist.

I think being an artist and taking on those challenges is just how it is for me. Because I was always a foreigner, I was always the outsider.

The words. I love words. I love to write. Being an artist is what I love.

I hadn't known anything else, other than being an artist, and I needed to be a person for a while, really get to know myself without that whole thing [of selling music] surrounding me.

In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.