Art Dedication Quotes

I've never been a die-hard fan, like a crazy fan for an artist.

By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me.

Van Gogh cut off his ear for his art. I'm not tryin' to cut off my ear. I'm not humiliating myself.

If you want to draw comics, you really have to love to draw, as you will be spending many hours sitting down with a pencil or pen in your hand.

I've been asked often what is the difference between an amateur and a professional artist, and I will tell you. An amateur artist is one who works all week at something else so he can paint on Saturday and Sunday. A professional artist is one whose wife works so he can paint all the time.

I have become an employee of art.

Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.

Only 10 percent of people who go to art school will still be making art in 10 years. To some extent, you have to want to do it. It's hard. It is something you really have to stick with for it to work.

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.

People see owning a gallery as a way to get rich. I never thought that I could get rich in the art world. I wanted a life in art. I wanted to live with artists. I wanted to make beautiful shows.

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

To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.