Aggressive Quote by Don Johnson

Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in…

— Camille Paglia

All artists have insecurity.

— Daryl Hall

Most artists are notoriously insecure, and I fall into that category.

— Anita Baker

I think there's a huge pivot in popular music, and just in culture in general, towards art that is vulnerable and emotionally honest.

— Mura Masa

The greatest threat to any artist is surrounding themselves with people who love everything they do.

— John Cooper Clarke

I think artists almost always end up turning to what's around them, what's in their environment or outside their window.

— Susan Rothenberg

Beauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days.

— Grayson Perry

Every artist is an unhappy lover.

— Iris Murdoch

Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some…

— Anne Roiphe

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

— Queen Victoria

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

— Donald Woods Winnicott

All artists are redundant about their own style; they can't escape themselves.

— J. J. Cale