Anne Lamott Quotes

I'm an artist in my heart.

I start a picture and I finish it.

Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the distance - often visible to us, but invisible to those around us.

The true professional makes art when he is not feeling good, if the studio is too cold or too warm or the walls are falling down. We are painters and we paint. If I were a sculptor, I'd sculpt.

To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and show that there is more to this world than what meets the eye.

What's exciting about being an artist, still, and what I'm really finding is awesome is that you can do it until you drop. I don't care how many lines I have on my face - I'll keep doing it!

Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven.

The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.

Art is something you can't teach, but you can inspire it.

I love creating images, of course, because I'm an artist.

I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it's just about your drive and your dream.

If I'm painting, I paint every day. I'll be up in the studio from 8:00 in the morning to 8:00 at night.

I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off. The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

You need a big ego to be an artist.

I'm an artist at heart.

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

I hope I will be able to paint as long as I live.

The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I'm optimistic.