Accomplished Quote by Albert Einstein

Artists lead unglamorous daily lives of discipline and routine, but their work is full of passion. Each has a vision and feels responsibility to…

— Merrill Brockway

“Artistic careers seem to attract a disproportionately high ratio of people with dysfunctional backgrounds, odd upbringings, multiple hang-ups, and exotic emotional deficiencies. In other…

— Graeme Thomson

It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others. We can…

— Julia Cameron

Creative people who have made their seemingly most self-indulgent artistic whims into a career.

— Steve Purcell

People become artists out of despair.

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Even if we artists are all very privileged, there's a constant frustration about how to do more or better, and never being satisfied.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

“If the creative process is so powerful, it would be natural to wonder why many artists have difficulties in their lives. It is because…

— Robert Fritz

In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom…

— Beverly Pepper

I've not met one person, even if they are not creative, who isn't dysfunctional. I guess artists are just a bit more aware of…

— Karen Elson

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…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and…

— Marvin Gaye

Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble…

— George Santayana