Art Quote by Brené Brown

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

— David Sedaris

Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness.

— Gerhard Richter

“Wonderful art can spring from misery,I'm the last person to deny that.I'd go even further:the best works of art of all time are probably…

— Esther Verhoef

“Tragic art is the organization of a small portion of an otherwise meaningless world that gives purpose to an individual existence.”

— Joshua Foa Dienstag

“Art is magic, and art is powerful. Art saves lives- I really believe that. It gives us courage and compassion we might not have…

— Sarah Cross

“My art is an act of creation and destruction, with all the sorrow and joy these engender as well as all the shadow and…

— Kathryn V. White

“Art is not alone in imparting charm and mystery to the most insignificant things; pain is endowed with the same power to bring them…

— Marcel Proust

“An artistic person taps into the destructive emotional energy of guilt and shame and the longing to love and be loveable and transforms these…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“I owe it all to words and art, the peace that came with a flicker of a pen silenced the suffering; eased the pain…

— Nikki Rowe

“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

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

— Jean Hegland