Top 27 Quotes About Outsider Art
#1. I think comedy is an angry art form; it's an outsider art form. Anger and comedy are really connected. If I'm angry about something I will try to think about something funny about it to lighten the load of the anger and cope with the anger.
Margaret Cho
#2. End Of Men is a concoction of sex, outsider art, filmmaking and death including an Italian island
C.B. Murphy
#3. It's totally different now, traveling to different meets and different cities and actually being able to enjoy the cities I'm in.
Gail Devers
#4. A shit show is chaos as religion, because "God is dead." A shit show all by itself is usually a crime. A shit show when put on paper or to music, is no longer whirling, twirling chaos. Then it's art. We can take it on the road, and we can travel with it. Have shit show, will travel.
Fiona Helmsley
#5. Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth.
Robert Henri
#6. If you've traveled independently through Tibet, Brandon Wilson's Yak Butter Blues will bring back memories ... this lively memoir is sure to provide a yak-scented whiff of nostalgia.
Hannah Nordhaus
#7. Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes - the outsider, the loner - it can have a real impact on the art when they realize, I have friends, I'm married, or I have kids. That's certainly happened to me.
Adrian Tomine
#8. Kerouac and I are not real at all. The only thing about a writer is that he has written, and not his so-called life. 'And we (will) all die and the stars will go out, one after another.
William S. Burroughs
#9. There are no rules, because life is made up of too many rules as it is.
Jennifer Niven
#10. Art can permeate the very deepest part of us, where no words exist.
Eileen Miller
#11. A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
Walter Lippmann
#12. Perhaps things are most beautiful when they are not quite real; when you look upon a scene as an outsider, and come to possess it in its entirety and forever; when you live in the present with the lucidity and feeling of memory; when, for want of connection, the world deepens and becomes art.
Mark Helprin
#13. In reference to Einstein's definition of insanity...
No Mr. Einstein, that is not insanity, that is autism.
Eileen Miller
#14. Compassion is the most powerful tool you can have when it comes to healing addictions of any kind. Put simply, what your partner needs most from you is compassion.
Christopher Kennedy Lawford
#15. Everybody's beatable. Mixed martial arts, there's many ways to win, and that also means there are many ways to lose, as well.
Bas Rutten
#17. I think that everyone who does music, and everyone who does art, or everyone who decides at a young age that they're gonna do that, is someone who feels like an outsider. The world is not really set up for that.
El-P
#18. Half to forget the wandering and pain, Half to remember days that have gone by, And dream and dream that I am home again!
James Elroy Flecker
#19. take a salad of pills and hit the floor
Pat Smith
#20. I cared nothing; my point of view in that instance, as in all others like it, was, that if the paper chose to send an outsider and an ignoramus to criticise works of art - especially the works of a new and tentative and experimental school - then, on the head of the paper let the just doom fall.
Arthur Machen
#21. Autism: Where the "randomness of life" collides and clashes with an individual"s need for the sameness~
Eileen Miller
#22. I threw All the King's Men across the living room.
M. Pierce
#23. How do you behave when you win? When your enemies are at your mercy and your power has become absolute: what then?
Salman Rushdie
#25. I'm definitely not an outsider artist. I'm very much an insider artist. I get written about in art magazines, and I'm not, like, in a mental institution. I'm a regular guy who went to art school.
David Shrigley
#26. Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
Ville Valo
#27. My characteristics as a scientist stem from a non-conformist upbringing, a sense of being something of an outsider, and looking for different perceptions in everything from novels, to art to experimental results. I like complexity and am delighted by the unexpected. Ideas interest me.
Peter C. Doherty
