Art Quote by Philip Kitcher

“I have treated many artists. There are among them many neurotics, so many that one finally comes to believe that one cannot be an…

— Paul Tournier

“An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himself with his art.”

— Lee Simonson

An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himeself with his art

— Lee Simonson

“Many people with creative genes also suffer from various neurological disorders; you can be Mozart and still be bipolar,” says Salerian. “There is a…

— Brett Milano

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

perhaps there is something more than courtesy behind the dissembling reticence of childhood. ... Most artists dislike having their incomplete work considered and discussed…

— Dervla Murphy

A lot of people who get into any art form have some form of mental..something in their head which is unstable

— Daniel Johns

I view all art as an effort to translate brain concepts into a work. These brain concepts are synthetic ones - the result of…

— Semir Zeki

“Rank asked why the artist so often avoids clinical neurosis when he is so much a candidate for it because of his vivid imagination,…

— Ernest Becker

The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.

— Robin G. Collingwood

The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton