Lynn Shelton Quotes

I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

I could never deny myself bein' an artist.

I'm not looking to be an artist to make money. I'm looking to be an artist.

My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it.

It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

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

I never thought about doing anything other than making art.

I never planned to be a professional artist - I just want to be a sustainable artist. I guess they're the same thing if you look at them from a different angle.

I knew I was artistic, and I wanted to do something in the arts.

I want to work in art forever.

Artists were always referred to as great artists. I thought that's what the profession was. One word: great-artist. There wasn't one moment in my life when I thought I wanted to be anything else.

How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

There were a million different things I could have chosen or wanted to do, but the path of an artist was the one that pulled me the most.

My art form is my child, and that's what I give my focus to.

At art college, I started to do music and then painting and drawing - and that would have been my ideal life, to be an artist and be paid for it, to be able to create stuff. I realized it was difficult, but I don't know if I had the application for it.

I want to be an artist artist, a real artist. I don't just want to do this for temporary money.

Only be an artist if you have no choice!

I am an artist who is ready to grab interesting roles that comes my way.

I decided that the whole idea of what it means to be an artist was that somehow you are ontologically oriented toward poverty : "As an artist, you don't make money." I had to figure out some kind of way to guarantee that I'd be able to continue doing the work that I wanted to do, whether I made money from the work I was doing or not.

I wanted to be an artist, because it's a much better scam than being an architect.

I discovered at an early age that all I've ever wanted to do is design.