Art Quote by Danger Mouse

I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist. If you're wandering the streets,…

— Steven Soderbergh

When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.

— Takeshi Kitano

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Most of the artists I know are crazy in one way or another. I think that's why you get into it. You're in pursuit…

— Bruce Springsteen

There are some artists that may actually be crazy, but there are some artists that just make different choices, and because they are different,…

— Wyatt Cenac

I don't know many artists who are not crazy.

— Bruce Springsteen

To be an artist, you're basically a crazy person. You're extremely narcissistic and emotionally expressive. The idea that the world needs to listen to…

— Chloe Wise

I get to say 'no' to a lot of things. That, for an artist, is crazy.

— Daveed Diggs

I am a serious artist in my own right, in the sense that I've spent my entire life being an artist and trying to…

— David Shrigley

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

— Bill Griffith

You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.

— Maira Kalman

Maybe my work looks a little crazy, a little insane, but I don't really see myself as a crazy artist or a shaman artist.

— Julian Schnabel