Anybody Quote by Dave Gahan

One needs to be on guard against expecting external powers to decide when you can take yourself seriously as an artist. It can be…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

I can't let the baggage of my private life get into work. Artists are more fragile than normal people. But I know that I…

— Bipasha Basu

That's like the worst - having the ability to do something and not doing it is, I think, the worst thing in the world…

— John Dolmayan

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

— Maynard James Keenan

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

— Bill Griffith

I think another way that you can really harm yourself as an artist is by buying into the mythology that it's really important.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destroy that is really healthy.

— James Van Der Beek

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

— J. D. Salinger

Being an artist is not exactly the most universally respected, or secure thing to do with your life. It can be frightening and you…

— Joan Osborne

When you are 'bad' in the art world they are very very scared! They want to control you... and they can't! Individuality and uniqueness…

— Laurence Gartel

No matter how incredible you are as a person, as an artist, if you have all these negative people around you, it's going to…

— Jackson Wang

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