Donna McKechnie Quotes

I want to write. I want to direct. I want to produce - I want to inhabit what I think it means to fully be an artist.

I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.

I just like to choose projects that will allow me as an artist to make my art.

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

But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.

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.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.

I'm really an artist. I really do this. I don't need the money. It doesn't matter to me.

My art completes my life.

I'm not in this to make money. I would not have sold my soul to be on 'American Idol.'

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.

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.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.

All any artist can do is please themselves.

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

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

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

In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.

My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

I wanted all my life to give my world into other arts - books, plays, movies - but I didn't want to sell out.