Able Quote by Beth Gibbons

I unfortunately do suffer for my art.

— Ridley Scott

When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.

— Wanda Koop

I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.

— Paul Gauguin

Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.

— Naomi Watts

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

— Tony Curtis

“There is a danger in exposing yourself to too much vapid art. It can weaken your judgment and erode your sensibilities, until the time…

— David Farland

I am a great artist and I know it. It's because I am that I have endured such sufferings.

— Paul Gauguin

I suppose I do believe that the greatest art consoles a wound that it creates, that art can give you the capacity to endure…

— Christian Wiman

Art became my therapy. It's an amazing outlet.

— Abby Martin

My paintings are well-painted, not nimbly but patiently. My painting contains in it the message of pain. I think that at least a few…

— Frida Kahlo

No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me…

— Claude Monet

I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising…

— Marilyn Manson