Being an Artist Quotes

Being an artist is a way of saying, I am here, and this is what I stand for.

I'm nothing else but an artist, I'm sure, and delighted to be.

There's no map for being an artist.

Being an artist is a lifestyle.

My mother really didn't come from artists. Her famous quote to me was, "The only artists I've ever heard of are dead." The pottery classes were meant to be a part of my overall uplift. I knew what it meant to be sent to art classes, but I still didn't know anything about being an artist.

That's part of being an artist; you have to be that sensitive.

The words. I love words. I love to write. Being an artist is what I love.

The great fear I've had to overcome is the fear of failure. You have to be willing to be afraid, if you're going to be an artist.

Wasn't the whole point of being an artist, or at least part of it, that you didn't have to wear a tie?

Being an artist is not only what you do, but how you live your life.

As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.

Being an artist is a job for life.

When I taught art, I was always asked, 'How do you know you're an artist? What makes you an artist?' And to me, it's like breathing. You don't question if you breathe; you have to breathe. So if you wake up in the morning, and you have to realize an idea, and there's another idea, and another, maybe you are really an artist.

I'm interested in storytelling. I love being an artist now and connecting through art.

You cannot just be the feature act, not that that's a bad thing, because that's a good thing, especially nowadays. But as an artist, you want to express yourself and you want to know what you want to express.

The one thing about being a creator, about being an artist, is that you get to explore your ideas. We're fortunate that we're in the position to do that, and I don't take it for granted.

There's a notion of art in this country that you have to be nutty or special or "called" in order to be an artist. I believe the questions everyone should ask themselves are, "Do you want to do it? Are you willing to do it poorly? Are you willing to do the work of doing it? Are you willing to persist when everybody tells you it's silly?" If you're willing to do that, then you can do it.

The whole point of being an artist is to have no agenda. To say, you know, I don't know what I am going to do tomorrow, I don't know what it's going to look like, and I'm going to have a go at it.