Art Quote by Roy Ayers

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

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

— Clive Bell

That's part of being an artist; you have to be that sensitive.

— Margaret Cho

Artists tend to be people of strong character and opinion. Often they are dismissed in our culture if they don't fit a certain mainstream…

— Robert Greenwald

Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists. There are good things and bad things about being an artist, and the good thing is, sometimes you…

— David Bowie

I saw more truth and sensitivity in art than I did in many of the people in this world.

— Frederick Lenz

“The artist who is too sensitive for contacts with the non-artistic world is thereby too sensitive for his vocation, and fit only to fall…

— Arnold Bennett

It's what great artists do. They suffer and feel more within the human condition than others. They're not better for that, just more sensitive,…

— Mandy Patinkin

I just feel like we as a human race tend to fear that which we don't understand. It's cause for a lot of bad…

— Billy Porter

In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom…

— Beverly Pepper

I've always felt like I needed to experience some type of anguish in order to feel productive as an artist.

— Michelle Zauner