Some people describe artistic women as narcissistic. In my experience they haven't been. They were more, not less, compassionate than the next person. They went to the bother of understanding me instead of passing uninformed judgement.
If a man is with a woman he thinks to be narcissistic then he should leave her. It makes no sense at all to be with someone you think to be a bad person. Leave her and save both her and yourself. And if you choose to stay then that is because you are getting something out of the relationship. Which means that you are obligated to be good to her whatever you believe her character to be.
It is said that one man's trash is another man's treasure. I have been with three women whom I adored but whose previous partners saw them as trash. I love them and I take issue with how they have been treated. The men got tons out of their relationships with these women. Their belief that the partner was bad justified them in failing to do their part and treat them right.
Once again these women were more, not less, compassionate than the next person. The claim that they were narcissistic was wrong. These men didn't know how good they had it with these women. They haven't had to deal with women who were actually bad, as for example have I - not in my relationships but elsewhere. Instead they were with women who were beautiful, kind and compassionate. And all they could think to do is treat them like dirt.
It may be inevitable that the creative types will be regarded as narcissistic. What is not inevitable is that the people describing them that way have the last word. The artistic women I've known were more, not less, compassionate than the next person. And I am willing to go to bat for them against anyone who describes them that way.