People of art should never get married and have children, because it’s a selfish experience.

The remark frames serious artistic vocation as demanding an intensity of focus that can conflict with the obligations of family life. Calling marriage and children “a selfish experience” is paradoxical: it suggests that the artist’s desire for a private, consuming creative life can make family formation less an altruistic commitment than a pursuit of personal fulfillment or stability that may come at others’ expense. Read this way, the quote is less a universal prescription than a provocation about trade-offs—time, emotional bandwidth, and mobility—especially acute in performing arts, where training, touring, and physical upkeep can dominate one’s life. It also hints at guilt: the sense that art can require forms of self-absorption that are hard to reconcile with caregiving.