169 Quotes About Artists-life

The wall was an eyesore in its newness, grayness, lack of grace. That much blank space might not set a regular person's blood racing, but to an artist, it's like opening up a new sketchpad, the kind with heavy textured paper. Impossible to leave it empty.

I am not antisocial, I just feel better when people are not around.

It is not in my nature to fill people's expectations, much less, living someone else's hell.

Art is my source of Ambition.

Aren't artists supposed to thrive on the creative struggle, battling the world and expressing it through their masterpieces?

Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.

In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid.

The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.

You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real.