Ignacy Jan Paderewski Quotes

I have become an employee of art.

I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but I didn't want to become an actor.

I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.

I always wanted to be an artist. I always knew that I wanted to paint, or dance, or sing, or act, or write.

I know how difficult it is to make a career in the arts, but even if you don't make a career of it, don't lose it as a hobby. Artists often end up in jobs that have nothing to do with their art. But that side needs to be fulfilled - don't give it up.

I don't want to just be an actor my whole life. I mean I do want to be an actor my whole life but not only an actor, I want to be an artist.

For a while, I just thought that I wanted to be an illustrator because that's all I wanted to do. I also did some sculpting. It was always very artsy and very feminine, everything that I did.

I believe that if you're an artist, it's like a gift. If you can do this for a living and you can be involved in it, it's something that you can't ignore. It's the chance for you to have a voice and create something from yourself.

I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically.

My artistic spirit is not nurtured by blogospheres.

The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators.

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

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

Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.

I knew I was artistic, and I wanted to do something in the arts.

My art form is my child, and that's what I give my focus to.

Cheryl's artistically inclined. She draws and sketches, but I don't know about acting.

I've always considered myself a poet in everything that I do, whether it's photography or movie-making.

For years, I kept the two separate: Michael Horse the artist and Michael Horse the actor. I like the acting, but I'm an artist; that's my identity.

The art helps, between the acting gigs. I feel that if I can sing in Mamma Mia! then goddammit, I can hang a few paintings, give people lots of cocktails, and have a good time.

Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man.

I was voted most artistic in school.

All artists are self-sacrificing human beings, and to become an artist is nothing but to devote oneself to the subterranean gods.

It is not from choice that my life is music and nothing more, but when one is an artist what else can he be? When a whole lifetime is too short to attain the heights he wants to reach, how then can he devote any of the little time he has to things outside of his art?

I was constantly drawing and colouring. I had an immense love for art and anything which involved art fascinated me.