Kerry James Marshall Quotes

I just want to work on things that move me.

The question is not... if art is enough to fulfill my life, but if I am true to the path I have set for myself, if I am the best I can be in the things I do. Am I living up to the reasons I became a singer in the first place?

I washed dishes so I could make movies. it was never a way for me to make money.

I wanna live.

Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.

I am just a normal professional with a great job and a great life.

I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.

I don't care about money. I really don't care. I just want to do what I do.

I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy working, but not to the point where that's the only thing I focus on.

I'm not driven by money and I'm not driven by career.

I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary.

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.

It's kind of not about the quality of the art, as much as this is what I love doing and I'd have a worse time doing anything else. That's kind of as far as I think in terms of philosophy.

I don't live out my career, I live my life.

For me to get up and feel the urge to go to the set and all that, I have to feel there is something tremendously vibrating to achieve there. I need to lose sometimes a consciousness of the person and the reality in order to be happy to come back into the reality and happier to live it for this cause, to be an artist in this life.

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.

I'll work as long as I can. I'm happy with my life.

My work gave me everything and allowed me to live out my passion.

Some people become artists for whatever reasons. Some of it's frivolous. And I don't think there should be any shame on that, but I think there comes a point in life where you want to offer more.

My art completes my life.

If you don't wake up and have your own thing, whether it's writing or reading or traveling or acting or dancing or singing or being a mother or a father, something that drives you, then it's all worth nothing. One of the key elements in happiness is purpose.

My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that's a lovely addition.