Art Quote by George Santayana

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

— Gerhard Richter

At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

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

— John Currin

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

— E. M. Forster

the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation.

— Edgar Degas

“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

Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

— Fernando Botero

Art is emotion without desire.

— Muriel Barbery

I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Art is always, even at its most repulsive, an impassioned cry of love.

— Laurence Overmire

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

— Randall Jarrell

I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because…

— David Hockney