Art Quote by Sean Lennon

Most artists - painters or writers - I think create out of stress or negative situations. Look at rock music. It's about getting things…

— Aesop Rock

I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . .…

— Henry Moore

I as an artist, as an individual, I have a certain affect on people.

— Belly

I can take all the negative energy and turn it into a positive simply by purging my soul through music. That's how powerful music…

— Bow Wow

Any artist will tell you that when they get negative criticism of their work, it's personally hurtful to them.

— Peter Clewes

Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression…

— Cornel West

...the artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give voice to…

— Peter Block

What you might consider a bad work can be of extreme interest to an artist in ways which are not about its being a…

— Jasper Johns

Most of the artists I know are crazy in one way or another. I think that's why you get into it. You're in pursuit…

— Bruce Springsteen

I find that the great artists I've met are people who are so playfully invested in their process that, even if it doesn't come…

— George Saunders

“In many ways an artist is his work. It's difficult to separate the two. I think I can be brutally objective about my work…

— Michael Jackson

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