Art Quote by Gary Shteyngart

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

A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Artists thrive on suffering.”

— Irving Stone

I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.

— Paul Gauguin

Stories always have held conflicts and contrasts, highs and lows, life and death situations. And there can be much suffering in stories, but now…

— David Lynch

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

— Naomi Watts

An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more.

— Sebastian Horsley

An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer.

— Joe Wright

I think most people who decide to become a musician have to be prepared for some degree of struggle. It makes the art better…

— Reeve Carney

“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

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

— Franz Kafka

“It is well known that great art, great music and great literature can emerge out of great pain. This does not lessen the reality…

— Christopher J.H. Wright