Ambition Quote by Henry James

“The artist who is too sensitive for contacts with the non-artistic world is thereby too sensitive for his vocation, and fit only to fall…

— Arnold Bennett

It's what great artists do. They suffer and feel more within the human condition than others. They're not better for that, just more sensitive,…

— Mandy Patinkin

That's part of being an artist; you have to be that sensitive.

— Margaret Cho

I don't believe artists should be subjected to experiences that harden the sensibilities; without sensibility no fine work can ever be done.

— Janet Scudder

“No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Any artist who fails to engage with society and the vulnerability of the individual in a cruel existence should not style him-or herself an…

— Lena Andersson

My wife's an architect, so she definitely has a very high-risk artistic profession, and she gets the idea that you're really sensitive, you really…

— Matthew Weiner

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist

— Stephen Stills

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

— JR

Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.

— Holly Near

All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of…

— Steven Erikson

People expect artists to be too normal, I think. I've been around enough of them now to see that they're very extraordinary human beings…

— Thelma Schoonmaker