Art Quote by Iris Murdoch

Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle royal, one…

— Seth Godin

Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as…

— Robert Genn

Art comes from joy and pain...But mostly from pain.

— Edvard Munch

I suppose I do believe that the greatest art consoles a wound that it creates, that art can give you the capacity to endure…

— Christian Wiman

Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human.

— David Whyte

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Art is only a way of expressing pain.

— John Lennon

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's…

— Leo Tolstoy

Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand…

— Joanna Scott

Art is a kind of illness.

— Giacomo Puccini

“Art is not alone in imparting charm and mystery to the most insignificant things; pain is endowed with the same power to bring them…

— Marcel Proust

...assume that art begins in unhappiness. True, the goal of art is to convey a vision of coherence and peace, but the effort to…

— Robert Adams