Being an artist is not only what you do, but how you live your life.
That's part of being an artist; you have to be that sensitive.
Not any particular religion or school of religion, but being an artist, you have to be spiritual, in a way.
I think part of being an artist is having the ability to define your own responsibilities. I certainly wouldn't prescribe any. As far as I'm concerned, my biggest responsibility is to my own imagination. We're all conduits. Art preceded me, and it'll be here long after I'm gone.
I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
I'm terminally dissatisfied. That's probably part of being an artist.
We all have our insecurity and that's normal. And you have to learn to accept that about being an artistic person or aspiring to be an artistic person is that fears and insecurity, they don't go away.
Maybe being an artist is a kind of detachment. You're in the cave, you're isolated, you're apart from everything and it's there you can find out what you believe in, or what is - what is the nature of being, as you see it.
The awesome thing about being an artist? You can't be fired from your own mind.
Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet.
Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It keeps us honest.
It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.
Everything I wanted before, I want twice as much now. And that doesn't mean material things; it means to explore more, to think more. Being an artist doesn't start because you're 21, and it doesn't end because you're 51. You are who you are until the day you die.
My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.
I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.
I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.
Somewhere within all of us is a wordless center, a part of us that hopes to be immortal in some way, a part that has remained unchanged since we were children, the source of our strength and compassion. This faint confluence of the tangible and the spiritual is where Art comes from. It has no known limits, and once you tap into it you will realize what truly rich choices you have. May each painting you do from that sacred place include an expression of gratitude for the extraordinary privilege of being an artist.
I never stop being a mother and I never stop being an artist. You understand? Which is probably why my kids are so creative, because it’s not separated.
Being an artist is very independent thinking, although there's always going to be a lot of doubt.
Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
Exhibitions of minority art are often intended to make the minority itself more aware of its collective experience. Reinforcing the common memory of miseries and triumphs will, it is expected, strengthen the unity of the group and its determination to achieve a better future. But emphasizing shared experience as opposed to the artist's consciousness of self (which includes his personal and unshared experience of masterpieces) brings to the fore the tension in the individual artist between being an artist and being a minority artist.
I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?
I hadn't known anything else, other than being an artist, and I needed to be a person for a while, really get to know myself without that whole thing [of selling music] surrounding me.
Artists no longer starve in garrets. Some people may think this is not wholly a good thing, that being an artist has become too comfortable, at least in the West. I'm not sure I agree. It's a mark of civilization to encourage the arts and the life of the mind.
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