Art Quote by Jim Rowe

Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression…

— Cornel West

. . . All artists’ work is autobiographical. Any writer’s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns…

— Kim Addonizio

There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists.

— Mos Def

There's only one passion in most artists more violent than their desire for admiration: their fear of identifying the nature of such admiration as…

— Ayn Rand

A great artist has a unique vision...obsession. They are someone willing to fail flamboyantly.

— Jerry Saltz

Artists often have mental health issues. And their lifestyles are unstable because of all the travelling and the media commentary on their lives.

— Kate Nash

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

The greatest threat to any artist is surrounding themselves with people who love everything they do.

— John Cooper Clarke

I think the popular concept of the artist is a person who has this great passion and enthusiasm and super emotion. He just throws…

— Richard Estes

Most of the artists I know are crazy in one way or another. I think that's why you get into it. You're in pursuit…

— Bruce Springsteen

Artists don't really want to be marginalized. They believe that everybody should be able to appreciate the experience that an artist gives them, an…

— Eric Fischl

The artist must be ecstatic about something.

— Ted Shawn