Quotes and Sayings About Being An Artist
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There's this privileged position of being an artist where you can do things on a more experimental nature simply to see what happens.
-- Andrea Zittel -
I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.
-- Anne Truitt -
The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!
-- Auguste Rodin -
Part of the business of being an artist is abetting talent. The best do that.
-- Faith Sullivan -
Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.
-- Holly Near -
When an artist stops being a child, he stops being an artist.
-- Isamu Noguchi -
I'm terminally dissatisfied. That's probably part of being an artist.
-- Jared Leto -
Being an artist is a way of saying, I am here, and this is what I stand for.
-- Jodie Foster -
I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste.
-- Kelly Lynch -
I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.
-- Larry Rivers -
Wasn't the whole point of being an artist, or at least part of it, that you didn't have to wear a tie?
-- Meg Wolitzer