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 -
You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.
-- Alan Palomo -
Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It keeps us honest.
-- Lupita Nyong'o -
I think that the whole experience of living, breathing, thinking, and being lost in wonderment is, for me, that of being an artist. And the idea of identifying as someone who is just living and existing and making objects or paintings-somehow I moved away from that years and years ago.
-- Tony Shafrazi
