Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big consequences for saying, 'I'm just going to devote my life to making art,' or 'I'm going to devote my life to writing novels.' You end up with no resources.
Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.
Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a Mickey Mouse degree that qualifies you for nothing in the real world.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste.
To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.
The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an honorable thing to spend all day and all night in front of your canvas - that is the romantic vision of the painter.
It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.
I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.
It's really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I'm just not down with intellectualizing it. I just think, if you feel like doing something, then do it.