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Only 10 percent of people who go to art school will still be making art in 10 years. To some extent, you have to want to do it. It's hard. It is something you really have to stick with for it to work.

One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you want the world to be and how you want it to become, there is a history of interesting growth that resonates with different moments in your life.

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.

I've loved art for more than 30 years.

At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.

To be an artist, you need to play inside your work.

I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste.

Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.

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.

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