Art Quote by David Shrigley

I wouldn't consider myself an outsider artist because I have a university degree in painting.

— Marcel Dzama

As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider. If you're an outsider you have the freedom to…

— Connie Nielsen

If you're the creative, artsy one who goes off to study painting or filmmaking, you're often seen as an outsider partly because traditionally, it…

— Dan Fox

I always felt like an outsider of the industry, and now I feel quite comfortable as an independent artist.

— Kate Nash

In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.

— Simone de Beauvoir

I've always felt quite like an outsider. I don't really belong in the mainstream, and I quite like that.

— Nick Lowe

I often felt myself to be an outsider, which is great training for all writers.

— Karen Russell

I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.

— Howard Hodgkin

As Colin Wilson has written, "modern civilisation, with its mechanised rigidity is producing more outsiders than ever before-people who are too intelligent to do…

— Laurence Boldt

Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.

— Mitski

I think all good art is outsider art.

— Scott McClanahan

I think being an artist and taking on those challenges is just how it is for me. Because I was always a foreigner, I…

— Tavares Strachan