Jimmy Cliff Quotes

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

I'd love to have written a film and it to be regarded as good. I'd just like to be doing things that are good, really. I think that's all you can aim for. I find it odd when actors say they just want to do films or plays or television. A lot of films aren't very good; a lot of television isn't very good; a lot of plays aren't very good.

I am only limited by the amount of life I have left to capture the ideas I am already working on. Another problem is that I am not sure if I would rather create or collect art. Collecting art is another passion of mine.

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

Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.

We show people that anybody can paint a picture that they're proud of. It may never hang in the Smithsonian, but it will certainly be something that they'll hang in their home and be proud of. And that's what it's all about.

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

I feel like I'm a realized artist, but hey, the good news is I can get better, and I'm going to continue to aim for that.

I always wanted to be an acclaimed artist and to be at the top of my game.

I knew my focus was going to be somewhere in the arts. I've always painted. I've always sung. I didn't know when or how it was going to happen - or what it was going to be.

I've become a writer, an actor, producing films, and having a TV show. I'm pretty successful and proud of it.

I am an artist who is ready to grab interesting roles that comes my way.

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

I've been lucky enough to win an Oscar, write a best-seller - my other dream would be to have a painting in the Louvre. The only way that's going to happen is if I paint a dirty one on the wall of the gentlemen's lavatory.

I never thought I'd get to the point where I'd be able to release a proper album, and I absolutely never thought that when I did, I would give it a name as stupid I have, but here we are.

What is important is satiating my creativity as an artiste.

I originally wanted to be a rapper and musician.

I dreamed of being an artist.

We truly experienced a lot as artists.

Once you look back on your career when it's over, you can say, 'This is what I achieved,' or, 'This is what I'm driving.'

I acquired quite a lot of technical skill and got quite a long way with my painting, but I never felt I was doing what New Zealand was about with my paint.

I have faith in my art.

I've accomplished everything I've ever wanted to in my career.