Art Quote by Norman Mailer

Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and…

— Anonymous

People become artists out of despair.

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful,…

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage…

— Erica Jong

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of…

— Oscar Wilde

Artists are the worst [people]. They are selfish, self-centred; they don't care what happens.

— Ai Weiwei

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

Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.

— Randall Jarrell

...why is an artist an artist? Artists simply do feel and see things in a different way to other people. In a way it's…

— Roger Waters

I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.

— Paul Auster

When you are 'bad' in the art world they are very very scared! They want to control you... and they can't! Individuality and uniqueness…

— Laurence Gartel