If you are afflicted with an artistic feeling, it's just…

The world I feel, within the realm of art, is more genuine than the wrorld of matter. Artistic feeling is not tape measures, spectrographs,…

— Gu Cheng

Never try to do anything artistic when you're feeling something overwhelming. It's like driving a car: If you're experiencing road rage, pull over.

— Stephin Merritt

Early in my career, I tried to bring an artistic feeling to architecture. That's really the intent and impression of what I think about:…

— Ma Yansong

“It has long struck me that people who attempt creative work of any type—scientific, artistic, or otherwise—without feeling any enthusiasm for that work have…

— Bruce Barnbaum

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

— Jeremy Taylor

Even in the greatest afflictions, we ought to testify to God, that, in receiving them from his hand, we feel pleasure in the midst…

— John Wesley

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.

— Princess Diana

“The capacity to pay attention to an afflicted person is something very rare, very difficult; it is nearly a miracle. It is a miracle.…

— Simone Weil

Dillinger at one point was the second most popular man in America after President Roosevelt. And he was a national hero for a good…

— Michael Mann

“The Gospel is meant to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.”

— Garrison Keillor

Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.

— Thomas Brooks

We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic.

— Barbara Tuchman

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy,…

— Phillips Brooks

Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what [a] friend of mine calls "the fleas of…

— William Styron

“Feeble, I’d become afflicted And my agony had no closure, To love I’d become immune Despite my abundant exposure”

— Joy Marino