Joni Mitchell Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

  Joni Mitchell

  Inspirational, Art, Things In Life

• I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate. I thought, that's interesting, because I believe a total unwillingness to cooperate is what is necessary to be an artist — not for perverse reasons, but to protect your vision. The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music. That's why I spend my time now painting.

  Joni Mitchell

  Art, Believe, People

• That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter does a painting, and he paints it, and that's it, you know. He has the joy of creating it, it hangs on a wall, and somebody buys it, and maybe somebody buys it again, or maybe nobody buys it and it sits up in a loft somewhere until he dies. But he never, you know, nobody ever, nobody ever said to Van Gogh, 'Paint a Starry Night again, man!' You know? He painted it and that was it.

  Joni Mitchell

  Art, Wall, Night

  "Miles of Aisles". Live album by Joni Mitchell, November 1, 1974.

• The Hollywood sirens are shrieking, while down some search lit alley runs some lost belief.

  Joni Mitchell

  Running, Art, Media

  Song: The Windfall, Album: Night Ride Home

• When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.

  Joni Mitchell

  Art, Children, Creativity

• Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time.

  Joni Mitchell

  Art, Kids, Responsibility

• The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.

  Joni Mitchell

  Art, Corporations, Consideration

• For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.

  Joni Mitchell

  Art, Intelligent, Careers

  "Joni on Point". Interview With Nic Harcourt, www.latimes.com. June 7, 2009.

• I sang in art school, just to get money to smoke.

  Joni Mitchell

  Art, School, Get Money

• I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.

  Joni Mitchell

  Art, College, Age

• When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my belt so I was sort of a novice folkie... I was singing folk songs at that time.

  Joni Mitchell

  Song, Art, Teaching

  Interview with Joe Smith, jonimitchell.com. November 3, 1986.

• The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.

  Joni Mitchell

  Art, Kids

• I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.

  Joni Mitchell

  Art, Thinking, Fine

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