Art Quote by David Lynch

The artist doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. Have it on the screen but have the people come out of the theater into…

— David Lynch

Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.

— Samuel Beckett

The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.

— David Lynch

You need contrast and conflict in order to tell a story. Stories need to have dark and light, turmoil, all those things. But that…

— David Lynch

“Suffering can precipitate creativity, liberating the creator through inspiration and then many available channels of human communication, and therefore there is value in suffering.”

— Brent Green

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

— Naomi Watts

“Artists thrive on suffering.”

— Irving Stone

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

— Franz Kafka

I once heard some idiot on the radio saying that all great art has suffering as its dominant theme, and that the greatest artists…

— Bart Yates

I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary.…

— Rita Mae Brown

“Suffering is supposed to be the raw stuff of art.”

— Jay McInerney

Perhaps it is that great suffering is necessary to produce great art.

— Victor Banerjee