Art Comes From Suffering Quotes

#1. Try and stay sober. Until the curtain call. And for God's sake, have fun. Don't suffer for your art. Just have fun.

Christopher Plummer

#2. Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that writing poetry after Auschwitz is impossible.

Theodor Adorno

#3. Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all this. I think work is the best. (Frida Kahlo, p. 157)

Martha Zamora

#4. If the subject is in a suffering circumstance, it is all the more preferable to apply craft to the utmost. Call it art or not, we photographers should always try to pass on our observations with the utmost clarity.

Dennis Stock

#5. Till thou hast learned to suffer from a saint a well as from the wicked, and to be abused by the godly as well as the ungodly, never look to live a contented or comfortable life, nor ever think thou has truly learned the art of suffering (383).

Richard Baxter

#6. I call it suffering and pain, they call it entertainment.

Ray Davies

#7. I love you, Lucien, but I am a muse, you are an artist, I am not here to make you comfortable.

Christopher Moore

#8. I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist; it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.

Rita Mae Brown

#9. It comforted him because it could not be called suffering if it was a sign of Art.

Hermann Bahr

#10. Blessed art Thou, Lord, who giveth suffering As a divine remedy for our impurities.

Charles Baudelaire

#11. Nothing's better for art than a little old-fashioned suffering.

J.C. Lillis

#12. Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

Franz Kafka

#13. You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#14. Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art.

Matt Lucas

#15. Suffering is supposed to be the raw stuff of art.

Jay McInerney