Suffering Artists Quotes

#1. If you think beauty insipid, you haven't experienced it. Nor is it always devoid of suffering. That's something religious artists have always understood, Michelangelo, Chagall, and Van Gogh, Beethoven, C.S. Lewis, and all the writer's for whom beauty is a gift and a calling.

Kristen Heitzmann

#2. Writers should cut as close to the vein as possible. The readers don't want to be covered in your warm sticky blood, but they want to come as close to it as possible.

Robert Black

#3. Rain came down in sheets. It had been a miserable spring. Already he despaired of ever again walking under an unclouded sky.

Sherry Thomas

#4. From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

Criss Jami

#5. Only suffering grows big artists.

Irving Stone

#6. The character of Matt LeBlanc in 'Episodes' has some real dark sides, and Matt wasn't afraid to explore those.

Jeffrey Klarik

#7. I think for an artist there are so many things to make pictures of now, that everyone else may be suffering, but at least artists will just be stimulated by it all.

Eric Drooker

#8. Try and make them understand that while artists can recycle their suffering in their art, I didn't know what to do with mine.

Viola Di Grado

#9. My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

Jean Rostand

#10. I'm attracted to artists like Frida Kahlo, because her work was her life, her questions, her outrage, her suffering, her pain. Everything is in her work.

Madonna Ciccone

#11. Within crisis, are the seeds of opportunity.

Marilyn Monroe

#12. When you are committed to living a life in service to the most high, the choices to be great, to serve and be served, to love and be loved are apparent.

Debbie Ford

#13. I'm Charles Baker Harris, he said, and I can read.

Harper Lee

#14. I'm not a leading man; I don't think I've got the face of a leading man, and I don't think, ever in my life, someone will cast me in the role of a leading man.

Toby Kebbell

#15. Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting for the blood to leave his vessels because if he advances another foot the pain of his love will kill him.

Henry Miller

#16. If you pass out, I'll put you in my lap and wheel you across the finish line

Carrie Jones

#17. When new artists come out and they're not being cosigned or some company doesn't have a stake in it, or someone's not getting paid under the table to produce the whole record or bring it to video, the artist really suffers.

Pharoahe Monch

#18. Katagiri Roshi says: "Poor artists. They suffer very much. They finish a masterpiece and they are not satisfied. They want to go on and do another." Yes, but it's better to go on and do another if you have the urge than to start drinking and become alcoholic or eat a pound of good fudge and get fat.

Natalie Goldberg

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

Christopher Moore

#20. Artists thrive on suffering.

Irving Stone

#21. We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things - and we aren't very good at it.

Nate Silver

#22. Am reading the life of Mozart and cannot help thinking that one's capacity for suffering is in direct proportion to one's greatness.

Lily Koppel

#23. Making love requires no thought. You move as the fronds of a palm tree move in the breeze. It is all instinct. All wonder. When you love someone, your lips are incomplete until they are oiled by a kiss. You can say 'I love you' a thousand ways but you can say it better with silence and a kiss.

Chloe Thurlow