Kristen Wiig Quotes

If I wasn't an actress I'd definitely want to do something in the arts and something that was very creative.

I think I would've found myself in the arts somewhere along the lines. If you're creative, you find something, eventually.

In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.

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

Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.

I look at composers and conductors, anybody involved in music or writing or art in general; they got more done as they got older. If I can, I'll be one of those people because what I do is my passion.

I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.

There are at least two retrospectives of my work each year in some country.

I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion. It's as though I had taken over the family Esso station.

I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.

The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me.

After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.

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

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.

O, had I but followed the arts!

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

I do believe I was put here to tell stories and be creative in that way. It's given my life so much purpose and meaning, and it's ultimately what I live for.

I've been making arts programmes for almost 50 years, and every day, I can't believe my luck.

The great thing about being an artist is, we want our work to be seen.

As I create art, it is like a love affair. My days go by loving what I do.

I don't have keepsakes from shows, really. It's in the work. It's all there.

I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.