Be an artist Quotes

“It takes an artist…. to be an artist”

“The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes.”

“I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.”

“My mother supported my every artistic ambition. I don't wonder why. I'm beyond grateful. But when I think of my grandparents barely surviving the war, I feel so pampered. What an indulgence to be an artist. So this is it, this is all I can offer, to the living and to the dead.”

“Every criminal would be an artist if he had the talent, and every artist would become a criminal if he had the guts.”

“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”

“One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light.”

“Be an artist in everything you do.”

“When people have told me that because I am a Catholic, I cannot be an artist, I have had to reply, ruefully, that because I am a Catholic I cannot afford to be less than an artist.”