Donnie Yen Quotes

I want to write. I want to direct. I want to produce - I want to inhabit what I think it means to fully be an artist.

I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.

I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.

Make good art.

I have to be able to be the artist that I am.

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

My artistic manifesto exists in the world as poetry. So even though most of the things that I've done have been on other people's projects or could be pigeonholed in certain ways, that's not how I perceive myself.

It has always been important to me to be a creative artist, not to be a star, not to be rich, not to be famous.

The artist in me welcomes another opportunity to be creative.

I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist.

Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I'm such a transcendental thinker, it's always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It's like going through a different doorway each time.

If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a set designer. As long as I'm creating something, I'm happy.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

To create a work of art is to create the world.

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

I'm not looking to be an artist to make money. I'm looking to be an artist.

No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.

I think it's natural for an artist to explore as they evolve.

It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.

Work can take on a new dimension if you know something about the artist.