Against Quote by Marcel Duchamp

The over-reliance on photography holds so many artists back.

— Jacob Collins

There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists.

— Mos Def

media saturation is probably very destructive to art. New movements get overexposed and exhausted before they have a chance to grow, and they turn…

— Joyce Johnson

Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex about their…

— Jessie Tarbox Beals

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

The artists could be dead, but some of them are not so distant from us, and make us feel as if they are alive…

— Yasumasa Morimura

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

Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.

— Maynard James Keenan

People become artists out of despair.

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up.

— Nhat Hanh

Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist's work,…

— Jerry Saltz

Artists are neurotic and hypersensitive, and they tend to focus on granular details, sometimes at the expense of the big picture. I've gotten better…

— Travis Knight