Great artists suffer for the people.

It's what great artists do. They suffer and feel more within the human condition than others. They're not better for that, just more sensitive,…

— Mandy Patinkin

We're not the only people that have had to suffer, there have always been people that've had to.

— Anne Frank

Katagiri Roshi says: "Poor artists. They suffer very much. They finish a masterpiece and they are not satisfied. They want to go on and…

— Natalie Goldberg

Our wishes are our most reliable mirror, and the black-and-white movies I'm most drawn to are about artists who suffer because art is a…

— Hilton Als

When a director makes a mistake, people suffer. People suffer horribly sometimes.

— William H. Macy

“All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed…

— Bertrand Russell

It’s so easy to think that we’re the only ones who suffer, while other people are somehow immune to pain, as though they’d been…

— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

“enemy than to suffer his people to be exposed to rapine,”

— Thomas Asbridge

Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind…

— Lara Logan

As a citizen I might be well-behaved and have nothing salacious or radical about me, I might be a total bore, but I might…

— Astra Taylor

All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed…

— Bertrand Russell

Black people are just constantly immature in their thinking, undisciplined, and we suffer as a people. This is not about race in the sense…

— KRS-One

“All great artists are doubters.”

— William Boyd

I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.

— Harold Prince

It just makes you a better artist when you're with people who are great artists themselves. Being around Kanye, soaking up all the knowledge,…

— Big Sean