Art Quote by Hiroko Sakai

“You have to be an artist and a madman...”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“An artist can't let madness stop him from making art, he simply has to channel it.”

— Christopher Moore

“BECOMING AN ARTIST IS A RECKLESS ACT OF INSANITY. BUT, IF I MAY QUOTE A PLAY THAT I THINK MIGHT BE A FAVORITE OF…

— Dana Schwartz

“I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one…

— Criss Jami

“Insanity is always a reasonable diagnosis when you're dealing with writers and artists”

— Scott Adams

“I have pretended to go mad in order to tell you the things I need to. I call it art. Because art is the…

— Iain S. Thomas

“I suppose it has been said that art sometimes benefits from a touch of madness”

— Ahdaf Soueif

“It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal.”

— Oscar Wilde

“When you speak of my insanity, please let it be with the beauty only art knows. Let it bleed till it becomes creativity and…

— P.H. Wilson

“An artist's role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are.”

— James Baldwin

All artists, they say, are a little mad. This madness is, to a certain extent, a self-created myth designed to keep the generality away…

— Angela Carter

“I am an artist. And An artist is simply a man who is pulled along by a river: on one side sanity lies, and…

— Félix J. Palma