Art Quote by Eric Gibbons

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is…

— Aldous Huxley

The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you'll eventually experience the happy accidents that are…

— Julian Casablancas

There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making.

— John Currin

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

— Montgomery Clift

Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.

— Josh Peck

Sometimes, trying to make a work of art can be very difficult and very painful.

— Mandy Patinkin

“If the creative process is so powerful, it would be natural to wonder why many artists have difficulties in their lives. It is because…

— Robert Fritz

Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the art.

— Philip Schultz

People become artists out of despair.

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.

— Randall Jarrell

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

— Clive Bell

People in misery is what most important in art.

— Zhang Yimou