Art Quote by Vincent Van Gogh

Artists often have mental health issues. And their lifestyles are unstable because of all the travelling and the media commentary on their lives.

— Kate Nash

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

“Insanity is always a reasonable diagnosis when you're dealing with writers and artists”

— Scott Adams

I would like to think that an artist's mental health is taken into consideration more now.

— Kate Nash

I don't know many artists who are not crazy.

— Bruce Springsteen

I don't know any artists that are really emotionally well adjusted. In fact, I think we're all pretty much insane.

— Jeff Buckley

There are some artists that may actually be crazy, but there are some artists that just make different choices, and because they are different,…

— Wyatt Cenac

Its also insane to me that people can expect an artist to not be prone to the same fluctuations in emotion and mood that…

— Gabe Saporta

Artists are neurotic and hypersensitive, and they tend to focus on granular details, sometimes at the expense of the big picture. I've gotten better…

— Travis Knight

All artists, they say, are a little mad. This madness is, to a certain extent, a self-created myth designed to keep the generality away…

— Angela Carter

“Sanity today appears to rest very largely on a capacity to adapt to the external world—the interpersonal world, and the realm of human collectivities.…

— R.D. Laing

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