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

The artist is not born to a life of pleasure. He must not live idle; he has a hard work to perform, and one which often proves a cross to be borne. — Wassily Kandinsky

The background of any artist is shaped by the first 15 years of his or her life. — Pete Hamill

Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions. — Marya Mannes

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

I didn't do music to live; I lived so that I could do music. — Charlotte Eriksson

'Faith and Will' is aimed at the same readership as 'The Artist's Way.' The book is for spiritual seekers in all walks of life. — Julia Cameron

I couldn't decide whether it was better to be the art, or the artist. — Chris Campanioni

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

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

The artist seeks to record his awareness of order in life. — John French Sloan

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

Life is like a jigsaw puzzle; Not a "Box of chocolate" You have to put the pieces together to get the 'real' picture. — Andrea L'Artiste

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

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

Literature will save me it's the only certainty i am sure of. — Nikki Rowe

Creativity is the brain's invisible muscle -- that when used and excercised routinely -- becomes better and stronger. — Ashley Ormon

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

You are a legend. Your self-invention matters. You are the artist of your own life. — Lady Gaga

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

You cannot grow if you are not Thinking — Andrea L'Artiste

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

The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts. — Oscar Wilde

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

The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself. — Pablo Picasso

She pours sugar on her life
and drinks the artist's marrow
in the bone of her glass and she lives. — Kelli Russell Agodon

The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly, too crudely, too cruelly, for happiness. — William McFee

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

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

The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before. — Kurt Vonnegut

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

For the artist treating of man's relation to all sides of life there cannot and should not be heroes, but there should be men. — Leo Tolstoy

The artist secretes nostalgia around life. — Cyril Connolly

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

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

There was a barber and his wife. And he was beautiful. A proper artist with a knife but they transported him for life. And he was beautiful — Anonymous

The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life. — David Steindl-Rast

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre. — Vikas Swarup

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

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

Starving artist: starving for affection, starving for attention — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

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

How lucky am I to be blessed with such a loving family? You and Lindsay are my greatest life's work and I am proud artist. — Jacquelyn Ayres

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

The goal of the artist is not to solve a question irrefutably, but to force people to love life in all its countless, inexhaustible manifestations. If — Leo Tolstoy

Our dedication- devotion- to craft should enlighten as it humbles us. — Ivan Brunetti

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

In every motions to put colors on my canvas, I feel like I am screaming, "I AM HERE" ... To whom?.. To where? ... Where am I going to ... ? — Hiroko Sakai

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

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

If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies. — Alison Lurie

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

The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work. — Ernst Haas

I think your life informs your art. — Sheryl Crow

The function of the artist,' the Navajo answered, 'is to provide what life does not. — Tom Robbins

Artists never seem to get bored with life. — John Kurtz

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

The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them. — Jerry Uelsmann

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

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 just think you can't shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed your artist. — Antoine Fuqua

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

Be a great artist especially when you draw your life's picture. — Debasish Mridha

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

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave. — Tom Wolfe

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

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

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

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

Being an artist is celebrating life. — Henry Moore

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

God, the supreme artist, uses our life for the creation of art. We are the instruments through which the force of life expresses itself. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Art is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine. — Joseph Plaskett

If if could bottle and patent 'Logic', I'd give it away. — Andrea L'Artiste

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

I am living a simple life with a complicated mind and I have yet to find a state of mind where I feel safe with who I am, where I am, with what I do. — Charlotte Eriksson

Measurements are never enough. The artist's eye and desire to breathe life into the subject must be the deciding factors. — David McCullough

The artist injects the spirit of life into a culture. — L. Ron Hubbard

If God could transcribe my heart, it'd still read "I love you". — Jenim Dibie

The function of the artist is to provide what life does not. — Tom Robbins

True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch. — Tiffany Madison

The only prophecy the artist can make with confidence is that he and his message will be misunderstood by a world that values all the wrong things. — Chloe Thurlow

Closed eyes cannot see light — Andrea L'Artiste

I admire actors and artists who devote just as much time to their life as they do to their work. — Jake Gyllenhaal

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

Mediocrity is Death. — Suleman Abdullah

There's only one thing in life for a woman; it's to be a mother ... A woman artist must be ... capable of making primary sacrifices. — Mary Cassatt

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

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

The artist needs no religion beyond his work. — Elbert Hubbard

If her artist's eye had given her nothing else, it taught her to see beauty where few others noticed it. — Elizabeth Camden