Every successful artist comes from a family - parents or siblings or both - who, although equally gifted, chose not to pursue the treacherous and difficult path of the artist.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.
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.
If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.
I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.
My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man.
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
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.