Quotes About Suffering

We seem doomed to suffer simply because we have a deep-seated fear of how things really are.

what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority

We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.

Many are willing to suffer for their art. Few are willing to learn to draw.

Art is born out of an ill-designed world.

Mine is the art of inspiring people to turn themselves inside out, transform their suffering into art, their art into awareness and their awareness into action

Art is a wound turned into light.

The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.

All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?

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

Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps.

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.

All these poses of classical torture ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard. I did go from wanting to be someone, now I'm drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue.

I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.

People in misery is what most important in art.

Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.

Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire; that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliché for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

You'll need to suffer to make any real art.

It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.

Colors are light's suffering and joy

One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.

Pain, thou art not an evil