“Acting is just another way to express myself as an artist. I realized if you're an artist, you're an artist and you can express that through music, through painting, through photography, through acting - this is just another way for me to express myself.” IfsWayArtistActingPaintingPhotographyI RealizedAnother Way Author:Common
“Since I moved six or seven times the first year I was in New York, I had to be able to roll up the work, and paper would just get destroyed. Once I looked at what I'd done, I realized I had made a painting, sort of by default.” YearsFirstsMadeDoneAbleNew YorkPaintingPaperSixMovedSevenI RealizedDestroyedDefault Author:David Salle
“Of course there is sometimes a price to pay. While I was busy painting, not only was my light dissipating quickly, but the fog had crept in slowly at the same time. When I lifted my eyes from the panel, I realized that I had better get a move on - and quickly.” SometimesLightEyeMovingCoursesPayPaintingBusyI RealizedFog Author:Cory Trepanier
“This was my first encounter with art as art (he saw 'Pinky' painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence and 'The Blue Boy" painted by Thomas Gainborough).. ..somebody actually MADE those paintings.. ..(it) was the first time I realized you could be an artist.” FirstsArtMadeArtistBoysSawsPaintingFirst TimeBlueI RealizedEncounters Author:Robert Rauschenberg
“It wasn't really until after I got out of art school that I realized that I'd been doing that sort of for the audience, for that context. Somehow, being alone in the room, it made no sense at all to make those kinds of paintings.” KindArtMadeSchoolRoomsAudiencePaintingI RealizedArt School Author:John Currin
“I realized that most people waste their lives earning a living, and I wanted to live. I love painting, so I keep painting. That's how I became an artist.” PeopleWantedArtistPaintingWasteI RealizedEarningEarning A Living Author:Pierre Soulages
“I realized that I had things in my head not like what I had been taught - not like what I had seen - shapes and ideas so familiar to me that it hadn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to stop painting, to put away everything I had done, and to start to say the things that were my own.” IdeasDoneMy OwnTaughtPaintingShapesDecidedI RealizedFamiliar Book:Some Memories of Drawings Source: Some Memories of Drawings
“One of the reasons that I went to Mexico aside from the Maya and the pre-Columbian aspect of it was that I wanted to work with [Diego] Rivera, which I did, on a mural that he was painting at the time. But at some point I realized that I wasn't going to be a political artist, it just wasn't in my repertoire.” ReasonWantedPoliticalArtistPaintingAspectI RealizedMexicoMural Author:Michelle Stuart