Starving Artist Quotes

#1. Over the last forty years, many educators, decision-makers, and even some parents have come to regard the arts as peripheral, and let's face it, frivolous - especially the visual arts, with their connotation of "the starving artist" and the mistaken concept of necessary talent

Betty Edwards

#2. Would the Holy One, Blessed is he, dispense judgment without justice? But we may say that he whom God loves will be chastised. For since the day the Holy Temple was destroyed, the righteous are seized by death for the iniquities of the generation

Berel Wein

#3. Starving artist: starving for affection, starving for attention

Jessica-Lynn Barbour

#4. Baby eagles can never soar under their family's wing.

Liu Yang

#5. I never understood, what a starving artist was until I became one.

Mary Sage Nguyen

#6. I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one with the good brain and great career.

Criss Jami

#7. I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

Cheryl Strayed

#8. I'm basically a starving artist.

John Trudell

#9. Making something secret makes it too important, elevates it to the point where it runs your life from the shadows. If you hide what's at your core from other people for too long, sooner or later you end up hiding it from yourself and waking up with no idea of who you are.

Michael Marshall Smith

#10. Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.

Robert Genn

#11. Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.

David Lynch

#12. It's really hard to find materials. Also, prices of metal have gone completely through the roof, insanely expensive. And if you go to a dictionary and look up starving artist, you'll see my picture.

Z'EV

#13. In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.

Creed Bratton

#14. Life is all about the choices we didn't make; it's Any day worth the risk.

Parul Wadhwa

#15. From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

Criss Jami

#16. The privilege of struggling artists is ... the life being buried in what we can't really afford of* what a gorgeous life!!

Hiroko Sakai

#17. I didn't really go the starving-artist route. I kind of went and did massive, commercial things.

Ashton Kutcher

#18. Even St. Teresa said, "I can pray better when I'm comfortable," and she refused to wear her haircloth shirt or starve herself. I don't think living in cellars and starving is better for an artist than it is for anybody else.

Katherine Anne Porter

#19. I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there.

John Knowles

#20. In sales, as in medicine, a prescription before diagnosis is a mistake in the arts.

John Naisbitt

#21. I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.

Felix Dennis