You can’t wait around for someone to call you an artist before you make art. You’ll never make it.

You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort

If you're waiting to write until you've figured it out, you're never going to figure it out.

Superheroes and saints never make art. Only imperfect beings can make art because art begins in what is broken.

If you're always aiming for perfection, you won't make anything at all.

The person who wants nothing, hopes for nothing, and fears nothing can never be an artist.

If you wait for someone to give you a job title before you do the work, you might never get to do the work at all.

You don’t make art out of good intentions.

Artists who don't paint aren't artists.

Artists who don't paint aren't artists.

As an artist, you should not wish to create what you don’t feel you have to create.

Künstler, was du nicht schaffen mußt, das darfst du nicht schaffen wollen.

The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don't believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life.

If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.