Quote by Adam Moursy

“The artist’s secret lies in fear and awe. Our times have turned them into terror and dismay.”

— Hugo Ball

“The more one suffered and lived, the more one had known of joy and grief, the deeper the response must be if an artist…

— Rachel Field

“I tried to make everything breathe in this painting: faith, quiet suffering, religious and primitive style, and great nature with its scream.”

— Paul Gauguin

“It is well known that great art, great music and great literature can emerge out of great pain. This does not lessen the reality…

— Christopher J.H. Wright

“True art was based upon despair, and the important thing was to make yourself and those around you as miserable as possible.”

— David Sedaris

“It has been my personal experience that as I allow the painting to speak I become lost, it is delicious and at the same…

— Luther E. Vann

Cursed in earth and subdued by death, man found himself beset by time, and his instincts put to the test. Only then, he realized…

— Ala Bashir

“Inside this little world they had taken pains to put all the things you might think they would want to escape from – hatred,…

— Terry Pratchett

“the artist descends within himself, and in that lonely region of stress and strife, if he be deserving and fortunate, he finds the terms…

— Joseph Conrad

“tragedy is suffering elevated into art, it’s art that helps humans endure—and sometimes even transcend—their suffering. It’s”

— Jean Hegland

“But the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift…

— Joseph Conrad

“only my art held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I felt was within…

— Russell Martin