Artist Quote by Israel Zangwill

“Beware of artists. They mix with all classes of society and are therefore the most dangerous.”

— Anonymous

“Every criminal would be an artist if he had the talent, and every artist would become a criminal if he had the guts.”

— Adam Langer

“Is it any wonder that no truly respectable society has ever trusted its artists?”

— Leguin, Ursula

“An artist, however modest, is always willing to hear himself preferred to his rivals, and tries only to see that justice is done them.”

— Marcel Proust

“Artists often enslave their friends.”

— Anonymous

“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

The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“This seems to have taken me a long way from detective stories, but explains, perhaps, why I have got more interest in my victims…

— Agatha Christie

“But in the case of an artist, weakness is nothing less than a crime, when it is a weakness that paralyses the imagination. ”

— Oscar Wilde

“Any artist must simultaneously be nigh cripplingly insecure and massively egotistical.”

— Jason Erik Lundberg

“I should fancy that crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Crime brings together honest men and concentrates them.”

— Émile Durkheim