Art Quote by Michael McDonald

I wanted to be a "serious artist." Serious artists didn't tend to be funny. But that didn't get me a lot of attention. And…

— Gabrielle Bell

I have a suspicion that a lot of artists are trying to get a laugh but, unlike stand-ups, they don't get an immediate response…

— Arthur Smith

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Maybe I don't have the same sense of humor. Maybe people aren't comfortable gauging a painting that way. They think that if it's a…

— Joe Bradley

I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist.

— Danger Mouse

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

— Bill Griffith

I think of myself as a serious artist. Sometimes you can get in your head too much about that and forget that you have…

— Tim McGraw

When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.

— Takeshi Kitano

I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist. If you're wandering the streets,…

— Steven Soderbergh

I've been criticized by my generation, artists from the '70s - and there's nothing more tragic than artists from the '70s still doing art…

— Marina Abramovic

There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.

— Marina Abramovic

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

— Rebecca Miller