Marco Brambilla Quotes

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

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

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

As an artist, I often wonder what my purpose is or why I do what I do.

Only be an artist if you have no choice!

As an artist, you have to do what you feel passionate about. It has to be something you can connect with.

The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.

An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond... a good feeling about his art.

It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on it that causes pain....A day when I don't write is less happy. This is not discipline. It is affection, enthusiasm, adventure-any number of other words besides discipline.

Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.

There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives me satisfaction.

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.

I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters.

To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

I make music not to make money but because it's in me.

People who are artists professionally are not artists because they want to be artists; they have to be artists. They're compelled to get that creativity out and to share that with others.

What is important is satiating my creativity as an artiste.

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.

My work is incredibly important to me personally. It brings me joy and it brings me life and it brings me meaning. It doesn't necessarily have to be important to the people who read it.