Anitta Quotes

Generally, I move in the direction of art.

A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn't make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, or HIV. I hate to say it - none of these make one an artist. They can help, but just as being gay doesn't make one witty... the only thing that makes one an artist is making art.

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

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

As an artist, I will always give art more importance and preference than pure entertainment.

I want to bring art into everything.

You should not think of business while performing your art. This advice holds true for every artiste, irrespective of what he is doing.

The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

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

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

Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.

My whole life was absorbed with my art. I was known by my schoolmates as the kid who could draw.

I never thought about doing anything other than making art.

That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.

I love an art-school girl. I mean... don't we all?

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.

My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.

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

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

I've never said, 'I live for art.'

I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.