Joni Mitchell Art Quotations

Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time.

The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.

For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.

I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.

The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.

I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.

When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my belt, so was sort of a novice folkie. ... I was singing folk songs at that time.

The Hollywood sirens are shrieking, while down some search lit alley runs some lost belief.

When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.

I sang in art school, just to get money to smoke.

That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter does a painting, and he paints it, and that's it, you know. He has the joy of creating it, it hangs on a wall, and somebody buys it, and maybe somebody buys it again, or maybe nobody buys it and it sits up in a loft somewhere until he dies. But he never, you know, nobody ever, nobody ever said to Van Gogh, 'Paint a Starry Night again, man!' You know? He painted it and that was it.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.