Paul Cezanne Quotes

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

I'm now able to show who I am as an artist.

An artiste can only be happy when he is true to his art.

As an artist, you have to do what you feel passionate about. It has to be something you can connect with.

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

I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.

I've learned that I'm most powerful when I'm doing my art.

For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, it's perfect. You don't have to come with anything. What you bring to something is the art. That's where it's found. It's found within you.

I just wanted to be an artist. I didn't care how or what; I just wanted to express my artistic integrity, and I wanted the world to have a vision of what I was seeing in my mind.

I have to be able to be the artist that I am.

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.

I could never deny myself bein' an artist.

I've never really thought of myself as just an actor; I always thought of myself as aspiring to be an artist, and an artist has to take risks and put himself on the line.

I suppose we'll make money off our album and our singles and stuff, but, like, they were made as we wanted them, exactly with what we had to say, and done exactly how we wanted them, right? And, like, we didn't put them out to make money. We put them out because we wanted to do them, do you know what I mean?

I don't feel I have to be Jackson Browne. Still, I like to say something.

As a performer, the thing you want the most is to be your authentic self.

I think an artist who has it in their heart to do or say something, they'll say it. It's not something that's mandatory, but it will come out.

Art is such a personal experience, I really try to make my own thing.

It doesn't matter even if I am slow or fast as long as my films are honest and carries my integrity.

Young people have realised that an artist is in charge of what they're doing - this crazy cynicism that artists were puppets has disappeared.

The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.

Everyone always comes to one point in their life as an artist where you can either let your heart guide you or your ego.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.