Nate Lowman Quotes

Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.

I like to think of myself as a true artist.

I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?

Mastery passes often for egotism.

I think that's why I became good at art. It was something that I could do that I could be really proud of.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

One may be humble out of pride.

There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

When I was younger I thought I was an artist, and inspiration would just come to me.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

The people I respect the least are the ones that take themselves way too seriously.

When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

I'm Richie Rich. I land in New York, secretly thinking I'm like the coolest guy in the world.

I don't think I could not have been with an artist of some kind, someone creative.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.

I've been asked many times if I considered myself a narcissist, so I looked up the real meaning of the word, and I came to the conclusion that indeed I am one. I think of myself as better than other people, not every person, but many, unique and talented, and I aim to success.

Washington is a city of arrogance.

I have no business carrying myself like some diva.

Barton Fink is just too self-important as an artist to get much sympathy.

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.