Stephen King Quotes

If you're going to be an artist, all life is your subject. And all your experience is part of your art. A youngster told me recently that he was going to give himself a year to see if he has talent. A year! It takes a lifetime to see if you have it. Painting is total engagement.

Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.

because talent alone doesn't make an artist

The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist.

I'm a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm an artist in that light. I went from being an artist to an artiste.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever.

Art has been good for my soul. And it's been good for my brain. I think I'm a better painter now than I was a musician growing up. You struggle to see things and translate an image through your hands to a canvas.

I have been drawing and creating visual works my entire life, as long as I can remember.

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange.

I have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do.

When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting.

Is an artist much more than a beggar?

I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well.

I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.

Art school can be a wonderful place if you're trying to find your voice and your style and your taste.

I just wanna be a good artist.

To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing. Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.

Drawing and visual arts was kinda my first passion going all the way back to when I was a kid. I always felt like it was what I was supposed to do - but in reality I don't know that I ever had the skill to make it a profession.

I'm not an Abstraction Expressionist, but I think dedication to paintings comes from an early interest in that work.