Art Quote by Brad Bird

We need grief as a precursor to emotional refreshment, and so consume it vicariously in somewhat titrated but powerful enough form through engagement with…

— Catherine Wilson

the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation.

— Edgar Degas

When anyone seriously pursues an art - painting, poetry, sculpture, composing - over twenty or thirty years, the sustained discipline carries the artist down…

— Robert Bly

I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.

— Neil Jordan

Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.

— Morena Baccarin

Behind all art is an element of desire...Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some…

— Adrienne Rich

In our culture I think most people think of grief as sadness, and that's certainly part of it, a large part of it, but…

— Anthony Rapp

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

— Marcel Proust

“Something is always born out of too deep grief. Just when you grope for balance, art is born out of a compelling desire to…

— Jayita Bhattacharjee

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

— E. M. Forster

I think that's an important part of art in general. Especially in literature, in stories, we play with eventualities that may put us through…

— Brian Boyd

It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience has brought us is worth our personal share of pain.…

— George Eliot