Sensitive Artist Quotes

I think in a way the great irony or paradox about America is that it makes it so hard for the sensitive person, the artist, the impressionable person, the person whose raison d'etre is to incarnate the creative will, rather than to just make money, and yet that extreme difficulty that the culture poses for us has created some of the best artists in the last hundred years.

I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.

I'm reclusive when it comes to me giving art away because I get real sensitive about that and critiques.

I've always had self-belief, though my sensitive side has never been fully appreciated. For every 'Down in the Tube Station at Midnight,' I've written an 'English Rose.' People forget.

You have to have a thin skin. As a creative person, you have to. You can't get a thick skin.

A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...]

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the time. I was sent away to this public school in the middle of nowhere, and I think we managed to completely miss out on normal youth culture.

Peter Sellers was great to work with. A lovely man. A little bit crazy in that he - you know, as I say, it was hard. It was sort of balancing a very delicate spirit on a needle. You know, because you never know where he was going.