Joan Chen Quotes

I'm a little bit of an obsessed artist, and I'm not very talented. But isn't Suzanne Somers a bad painter?

When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.

Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on.

Art is a jealous mistress.

Art is jealous, and demands our whole strength ... .

You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

I always find it fascinating to ask people, why they've chosen to live their life as an artist? Why be an actor, a singer, an author, a filmmaker? I've heard such inspiring answers to that question.

Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.

A passion for his art, and an eager desire to excel, will more than supply an artist with the place of method.

I've been asked often what is the difference between an amateur and a professional artist, and I will tell you. An amateur artist is one who works all week at something else so he can paint on Saturday and Sunday. A professional artist is one whose wife works so he can paint all the time.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

My whole life was absorbed with my art. I was known by my schoolmates as the kid who could draw.

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.

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

By the time I was 12, I had decided to be an artist.

The market kills more artistic passion than anything else.

For the serious artist does not satisfy needs

Being an artist is a lifestyle.

I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.

An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.

It is so much worse to be a mediocre artist than to be a mediocre post-office clerk.

If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me. So let's have no talk of temperamental, self-absorbed and petulant babies. Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on. I love them all.

I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]