Art Quote by James Franco

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

— Lou Reed

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

I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want…

— Anonymous

As an artist, one of the ingredients to doing good work is self-awareness, and that's something I cultivate.

— Rodney Crowell

An artist’s work is almost entirely inquiry based and self-regulated. It is a fragile process of teaching oneself to work alone, and focusing on…

— Teresita Fernandez

If you're really going to uncover something as an artist, you're going to come into access with parts of your personality and your psyche…

— Billy Corgan

Self-consciousness is almost the biggest thing you have to deal with as an artist. That's why many artists crash and burn, because they can't…

— Grayson Perry

There's a bunch of people who sit around and make excuses for themselves and get upset with artists, but you already know what this…

— Rico Love

It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are…

— Simone Weil

I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.

— Mitski

Sometimes it's really weird being an artist, and I deal with that best by being myself.

— Sigrid

Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines,…

— Harold Prince