Crazy Artist Quotes

#1. Maybe my work looks a little crazy, a little insane, but I don't really see myself as a crazy artist or a shaman artist.

Julian Schnabel

#2. I have these habits. I'm not a crazy artist. Or am I?

Ron Carlson

#3. I think that Van Gogh is really the ultimate crazy artist that we all think of.

Ellen Forney

#4. What a crazy artist this evolution is! Watch the little cats playing; they are the crazy works of the evolution!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. With drama, you need to be laughing, in between takes, 'cause you're going to those recesses of your soul and those dangerous parts. Normally, if you're not an actor or some crazy artist, you don't feel the need to run around in those areas. You keep them separate because it's painful.

Josh Peck

#6. You sought to preserve your creative instincts and what would nourish them. But neurosis itself does not nourish the artist, you know; he creates in spite of it, out of anything, any material given to him. The torments and hells of [crazy men], are not for you.

Anais Nin

#7. It'd be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he's not talented. I don't think anybody really believes that, but sometimes it feels that way.

Oscar Isaac

#8. I don't need a Hollywood girl. They're crazy. If you're with an actress, you don't know who you're going to come home to every day. But I wouldn't mind a relationship with the right girl. Every artist needs a muse.

JC Chasez

#9. I started in the late 70s, beginning of the 80s, and I think I started to sing and make music as a therapy for myself; I never planned to be an artist; sometimes when I think about it it's crazy that I'm here, and I'm touring, and I'm doing what I'm doing.

Mari Boine

#10. I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is an experience.

Tom DeLonge

#11. Clary, you're an artist, like your mother. That means you see the world in ways that other people don't. It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy - just different. There's nothing wrong with being different.

Cassandra Clare

#12. I'm tired of feeling like I'm fucking crazy.
I'm tired of driving till I see stars in my eyes.

Lana Del Rey

#13. To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a great artist can do.

Lou Reed

#14. But if you have a point of view and you're an artist or a writer, it's kind of crazy to not take advantage of that, especially if you can do something that's entertaining as well. I've done a number of things like that over the years.

David Lloyd

#15. I think that I have grown a lot as an artist. I have been writing about my experiences of love and overcoming the struggles that I have faced in the music industry. I have so much more to tell my fans, and I know so much more about myself. It is crazy how much I have grown over these past years.

Jessica Sanchez

#16. I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.

Banks

#17. When an artist, or whomever, moves from their scene to the bigger pond, it starts getting crazy, because all of a sudden people don't respect you, and you have to start being a lot more aggressive than you would normally be.

Grimes

#18. Conform, go crazy, or become an artist.

Nancy Springer

#19. I started off as a graffiti artist in the South Bronx. My tag name was 'Loco' because I would go crazy and tag anywhere I wanted, in the weirdest places.

Swizz Beatz

#20. If you're any good as an artist, you have to be doing something nobody else has interest in. Nobody would be interested in my work except a few crazy people.

Carl Andre

#21. I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist.

Danger Mouse

#22. It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill - it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.

Vincent Van Gogh

#23. I didn't want people to know that I was an artist. I was ashamed. I thought artists were weird, crazy people, you know. So I always kind of hid the fact that I was an artist.

Margaret Keane

#24. I've never been a die-hard fan, like a crazy fan for an artist.

Meghan Trainor

#25. The myth of 'You have to be a tortured artist' is a myth," says Lin. "You can have a happy, healthy life and still go to all these crazy dark places in your writing, and then go play with your child and hug your wife.

Jeremy McCarter

#26. I've never seen myself as an artist. So when that happened it was like a whole other crazy thing.

Pharrell Williams