Art Quote by Irving Stone

“Only suffering grows big artists.”

— Irving Stone

“Suffering is supposed to be the raw stuff of art.”

— Jay McInerney

“Pain fuels artistry and creativity. Harness your suffering and become a master of your art.”

— Michelle C. Hillstrom

Great artists suffer for the people.

— Marvin Gaye

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

— Joe Wright

Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.

— Samuel Beckett

“No true artist is possible without sorrow and suffering and renunciation.”

— Jessie Fothergill

The artist doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. Have it on the screen but have the people come out of the theater into…

— David Lynch

“What can be sadder than a discouraged artist dying not from his own commonplace maladies, but from the cancer of oblivion?”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“tragedy is suffering elevated into art, it’s art that helps humans endure—and sometimes even transcend—their suffering. It’s”

— Jean Hegland

“We suffered for our art. You have to suffer for our art as well!”

— Terry Gilliam

“Out of suffering comes creativity”

— Anonymous