Art Quote by Jonas Mekas

No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.

— Irving Stone

An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.

— Marion Cotillard

People expect artists to be too normal, I think. I've been around enough of them now to see that they're very extraordinary human beings…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

— Ira Sachs

An artist is his own fault.

— John O'Hara

“But then, no artist is normal; if he were, he wouldn’t be an artist.”

— Rory Noland

I just want to be written about as a normal artist

— Robert Mapplethorpe

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

Being an artist is being an isolated individual.

— Asger Jorn

“Any artist who fails to engage with society and the vulnerability of the individual in a cruel existence should not style him-or herself an…

— Lena Andersson

As an artist, it is central to be unsatisfied.

— Lawrence Calcagno

An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir