Quotes on Being An Artist

Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

The only thing that I am concerned with in life is being an artist .. I had to suppress for so many years in high school because I was made fun of but now I'm completely insulated in my box of insanity and I can do whatever I like.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.

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

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.