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An artist's life is supposed to lead toward his masterpiece, not away from it. — John Thomas Sladek

An artist's work is one long conversation with life. — Marty Rubin

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The naturalness of life ... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life. — Barbara Hepworth

Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist. — Chris Robinson

Whoever uses the spirit that is
in him creatively is an artist. To
make living itself an art, that is
the goal. — Henry Miller

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record. — Andre Maurois

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie. — M. Night Shyamalan

The more life you have, the more it's in your pores, the more able you are to be creative as an artist. — Lesley Manville

Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity. — Orhan Pamuk

When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience. — Josh Peck

You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art. — Seth Godin

May those who have touched our canvas with their eyes and hearts grow knowing the joy and wonder of an artist of life. — Robert Regis Dvorak

Gut level is a good level to deal with life, and for me, I have to say that Buddhism makes sense for me because it's how I'm an artist. — Laurie Anderson

Can you have it all, as a woman? Can you be a creative artist and have stability and a home life? How much can you stretch yourself as an artist? — Catherine Hardwicke

You just have to know that the more successful you get as an artist, the less of a normal life you have. It's a trade-off. — Solange Knowles

The more one suffered and lived, the more one had known of joy and grief, the deeper the response must be if an artist were great enough to summon it. — Rachel Field

Being a martial artist for many years, it has become a bit of an obsession of mine to bring that part of my life to the screen. — Sundra Oakley

Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.
For the Earth, without 'Art' is just 'Eh — Jasleen Kaur Gumber

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing. — Vincent Van Gogh

Talking about adversity that I've walked through in my own life or hearing an artist talk about their own adversity makes me feel vulnerable. — John Feldmann

Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended. — Eric Maisel

I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist. — Quentin Tarantino

I can create my imagination because i am an Artist.! — Manish Suthar

If an artist is one who spends his life trying to define his being, I guess I would have to call myself an artist. — Roger Ballen

I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist. — Roger Daltrey

An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public. — Maurice Chevalier

You can't reject anything in your life as an artist. Everything has its use. — Richard C. Armitage

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life. — Novalis

For Dylan, it seems, life is always the next gig. Changing pace and location are essential to his survival as an artist. — Douglas Brinkley

I think that being an artist is more an approach to life than an approach to work. — Andrew Levitas

That life has no clear meaning is the best possible news for an artist. — Marty Rubin

Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career. — E.A. Bucchianeri

Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist? — Eugene Manlove Rhodes

I know I am making the choice most dangerous to an artist in valuing life above art, — James Agee

My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to. — Dan Fogelberg

I'm an artist first and foremost. So things are gonna go up and down and sideways and whichever way all through life. — Lucinda Williams

But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent. — Philip K. Dick

Every person has parallel tracks. You have your personal life or your life as an artist, or whatever it is you do. — Gina Bellman

My life is mine and I form it. Tell yourself this often. Create your own life now, using your beliefs as an artist uses color. — Seth

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist. — Brandon Boyd

Life usually tells the best stories - but sometimes it takes an artist to show us what they mean. — Terry Teachout

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art. — Miguel Ruiz

My dream is to continue to be an artist who gets to be different individuals from different walks of life. — Hosea Chanchez

I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that. — Olivia D'Abo

Being an artist is celebrating life. — Henry Moore

The mission of the artist in an over-technologi zed society, is to call the old magic back to life. — Tom Robbins

The onlooker turns from the artist who has higher ideals and who cannot see his life purpose in an art without aims. — Wassily Kandinsky

One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist. — Andres Serrano

The life of an artist is not so romantic as some might suppose. — Kyle Muntz

No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life. — Richard Aldington

Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering. — Naomi Watts

Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life. — Aleksa Palladino

To be an artist, one must ... never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life — Diego Rivera

I didn't originally intend to be an artist; I was much more interested in decorative arts--daily life, beautiful objects. — Helaine Posner

A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world ... — Alice Walker

When you look at your life as an artist, you do see that when you get to be 60, you're coming - this is the last chapter. — Sally Mann

Being an artist is a job for life. — Brian Eno

I feel like I have the greatest life an artist could dream of. — Tommy Shaw

Over time, jealousy becomes an element as indispensable as paint in the life of the master artist. — Orhan Pamuk

I don't want to just be an actor my whole life. I mean I do want to be an actor my whole life but not only an actor, I want to be an artist. — Ansel Elgort

Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life. — Robert Henri

Art is an attitude toward life. If you aim your work and your life high, keep your scene harmonious, then you're an artist and your life is art. — Gage Taylor

The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination. — Marcel Duchamp

If living life is an art , let us all become an artist — Rajdeep Mittal

Show me the artist anywhere who's had an utterly stable mental life, and I'll buy you hot dinners for the rest of your life. — Mark Haddon

A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life. — Giorgio Morandi

I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist. — Shelley Duvall

An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

My first book really did change my life. It allowed me to fully express myself. There was a sense that I was worth something as an artist. — Gary Shteyngart

Every person, every artist makes his life an artwork. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art. — Edi Rama

As an artist I just can't think of a better life than the one I've been blessed with. It's just a great ride. — Robert Redford

I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life. — D.T. Suzuki

An artist don't make you bigger than life - being that person that can break artists can make you bigger than life. — Timbaland

Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist. — Anais Nin

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud. — Emile Zola

You are an artist. The canvas is your life. Make something worth staring at. — Cheryl Richardson

The story tells us that living the life of an artist is not as useful as living our lives as a work of art. — Martin Prechtel

I can obviously relate to a character who is an artist, because the creative process is a big part of my life. — Paul Dano

Being an artist is not only what you do, but how you live your life. — Ben Shahn

My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist. — Alex Grey

Art is a place where tragedy meets beauty. An artist is someone who creates the most beautiful things of his life when his soul starts bleeding. — Akshay Vasu

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it. — Julia Cameron

Make no mistake about it, magick is an art form, and every true magician is an artist. — Lon Milo DuQuette

It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing. — Steve Jobs

You have to be an artist and a madman... — Vladimir Nabokov

An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art. — Ad Reinhardt

I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. — Don DeLillo

Until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work. — Marjorie Benton Cooke

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously. — Pras Michel

I think it's much richer and much more fun to be an artist than to be anything else. I can't think of a better life than acting. — Edward Herrmann

The life of an artist is not all glamorous. It's a lot of work. A lot of people think that it's very easy. — Selena

All it takes to become an Artist is to start doing Art. By living a life full of Art, we may achieve an Artful life. — Ellen Langer

I am an artist ... I am here to live out loud. — Emile Zola

To wear something like that your whole life is the largest compliment someone can pay to you as an artist. — H.R. Giger

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. — Edward Hopper

And the eye became a body, the murky heart of a rose. The sinister shadow of an orchid. Or the indolent poppy balanced behind the ear of Baudelaire. — Patti Smith

Everyone always comes to one point in their life as an artist where you can either let your heart guide you or your ego. — Louie Anderson