Jackie DeShannon Quotes

Art school can be a wonderful place if you're trying to find your voice and your style and your taste.

As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you.

I feel that I am more aware of my artistry.

I did get a reputation for being choosy and not very easy to be approached, and none of that is true. It is not that I am not approachable, it is just that I am trying to find myself and establish who I am as an artist.

You are the artist and the art.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

Somewhere during the 'Next to Normal' Broadway run, I found myself learning more about myself onstage than in real life, and I truly realized the beautiful, tremendous, extraordinary gift that is performing.

Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.

Everything I make starts very personally.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the places I want to also be.

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

To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.

Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.

Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.

I drew as a child, they tell me. I can vaguely remember doing it. And then I drew again in the late years at high school.

As an artist, one of the ingredients to doing good work is self-awareness, and that's something I cultivate.

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.