Complicated Quote by Eva Victor

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

— Tori Amos

Artists react to tragedy by doing something both as a way for us as artists to process our pain and our grief and our…

— Marc Andreyko

Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.

— Brennan Manning

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and…

— V. S. Naipaul

Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we're invested in someone being our villain, we must love being the…

— Regina Brett

“A victim evokes sympathy, right? Victims are not responsible, right? Victims have the moral high ground… someone else is causing the misery, right? Victims…

— David W. Earle

We're painting the same people all our life - it's just the way we look at them that changes. If you experience trauma, you…

— Christian Boltanski

Tragedy is the greatest art form of all. It gives us the courage to continue with our life by exposing us to the pain…

— Howard Barker

People don't paint for the hell of it. It's a deeply seated thing - a preoccupation - the whole of one's life.

— Roger de Grey

It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are…

— Maya Angelou

I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to…

— Lucian Freud

I think art can reflect tragedy.

— John Corigliano