Nina Nesbitt Quotes

An artist's life is supposed to lead toward his masterpiece, not away from it.

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

One day I would like to have my own art show.

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

This image of wanting to be an artist - that I would in some way become an artist -was very strong. I knew for a long, long time that that's what I would be. But nothing I ever did seemed to bring me any nearer to the condition of being an artist. And I didn't know how to do it.

My dream since I was a kid was to show in a gallery.

When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

Many young artists, they look at the art world and think they can make a lot of money.

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 grew up wanting to be a painter and paint pictures.

Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.

What I voice, I voice though my art, if that's not too vainglorious a word. But I don't think it is.

It's like whether you're in a huge movie or you've just recorded an incredible album you've got to do the next thing, and that's part of being an artist.

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

Generally, I move in the direction of art.

I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.

But the drawings are not created only to be sold.

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 want to work in art forever.

I hate to sound like a romantic adolescent, but I believe artists don't generally see art as a career choice; they simply can't overcome their desire to make art, and will live on little income for as long as they have to, before they start to sell their work - or give up and get a paying job.

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.

Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.' That's kind of stuck with me.

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