“You become an artist to upset your family.”
Günter Brus (1938) Austrian artist
Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006), P. 51 (Gunter Brus.Nach uns die Malflut!Pheoretische Poesien.Klagenfurt:Ritter Verlag,2003, p. 135)
“You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.”
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Kara Walker (1969) African American artist
On becoming an artist in “‘There’s No Diploma in the World That Declares You an Artist’: Watch Kara Walker Lay Out Her Advice for Art Students” https://news.artnet.com/art-world/watch-kara-walker-art-21-1316030 in artnetnews (2018 Jul 12)
“An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.”
Henry Miller book Tropic of Cancer
Source: Tropic of Cancer
“To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.”
Jasper Johns (1930) American artist
as quoted in photo-exhibition 'Cy Twombly', museum Marseille Amsterdam, autumn 2008
2000s
Asger Jorn (1914–1973) Danish artist
Quote in the late 1960s, as cited in Asger Jorn (2002) by Arken Museum of Modern Art, p. 28
1959 - 1973, Various sources
William Baziotes (1912–1963) American painter
Quote from Baziotes' text for the symposium 'The Creative process', Art Digest Vol. 28, no 8, 15; January 1954, p. 33
Baziotes is referring here to the many art-debates and exchanges between the New York Abstract Expressionist artists
1950s
“Some of you are doomed to be artists.”
Martha Graham (1894–1991) American dancer and choreographer
Though often used by Graham, she credited this to Robert Edmond Jones. Agnes de Mille states in "The Life and Work of Martha Graham" (2010), p. 215: It was Jones who used to say to his classes, "Some of you are doomed to be artists." Martha picked up this phrase and used it many times thereafter.
Misattributed
Gregory Hill (1941–2000) American writer and founder of Discordianism
Source: Principia Discordia ● Or ● How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger
“As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.”
Izaak Walton book The Compleat Angler
Epistle to the Reader.
The Compleat Angler (1653-1655)