Achievement Quote by James Elkins

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

Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the hope that…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“True artists, whatever smiling faces they may show you, are obsessive, driven people—whether driven by some mania or driven by some high, noble vision…

— John Gardner

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

— Roman Payne

Precocious and eccentric are okay. But I think that people in the arts represent something integral and kind of secretive in everybody else. So…

— Nellie McKay

Great performers require a measure of confidence that would strike many as absurd, unfounded, and downright irrational. They believe in themselves utterly, without question,…

— John Eliot

Its also insane to me that people can expect an artist to not be prone to the same fluctuations in emotion and mood that…

— Gabe Saporta

I suppose the good artists, the righteous artists, somehow manage to be exuberant, and the embarrassed artist has this idea that everybody has to…

— John Currin

Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an…

— Vanna Bonta

It's so easy to look at artists, like myself or whoever, and think their lives are perfect. That's just not a reality for any…

— Carly Pearce

“The dramatic and the sensational seldom yield the treasures of enlightenment that the commonplace and the unpretentious often harbour unsuspected. For being as much…

— Louise de Kiriline Lawrence

Extreme people combine brilliance and talent with an insane work ethic.

— Justine Musk