Keiynan Lonsdale Quotes

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.

There were a million different things I could have chosen or wanted to do, but the path of an artist was the one that pulled me the most.

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

Only be an artist if you have no choice!

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

I never thought about doing anything other than making art.

If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.

Before I reached 10 years old, I knew I was going to be an artist.

I want to work in art forever.

Artists were always referred to as great artists. I thought that's what the profession was. One word: great-artist. There wasn't one moment in my life when I thought I wanted to be anything else.

I could never even entertain the notion that it's an option, to not be an artist.

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

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

I think it all comes from the same source, really, the writing of music, the writing of words, the playing of music. It's what drives anyone to be interested in the arts. I think it's a poetic gene; it's a wanting to go beyond.

Me wanting to be an artist never really faded away. I knew that no matter what else I tried to pursue, my passion was always that.

There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives me satisfaction.

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

Designing came to me. I didn't have to move.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

One day I would like to have my own art show.

I may not be much good at most things, but if I didn't have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and doing it better than anyone else, I would have stopped buying art many years ago.

My dream since I was a kid was to show in a gallery.

I cannot live without art: it excites me, it challenges me, and it leads me to the next thing.

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.