Art Quote by Jack Larson

I do think that there's art that is tortured, but I prefer art that has the joy in it.

— Josh Ritter

There is this view that if you are not tormented you cannot be vital and creative. I would like to think that is not…

— Gillian Anderson

“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

“I know that I stopped thinking about extreme grief as the sole vehicle for great art when the grief started to take people with…

— Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib

The image of the tormented man is taken and reproduced in the dirtiest political ways by the institutions of the church, and through this…

— Sorin Cerin

People in misery is what most important in art.

— Zhang Yimou

“Great works of art in all cultures succeed in capturing within the constraints of their form both the pathos of anguish and a vision…

— Stephen Batchelor

I'm a huge fan of Renaissance art. It's very direct. They're paintings that hit you in the face in the same immediate way that…

— Sigrid

Art has to offer something other than stylized despair.

— Ben Lerner

I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th…

— Oliver Stone

We can hardly imagine a state of mind in which all material objects were regarded as symbols of spirtual truths or episodes in sacred…

— Kenneth Clark

You desire a popular art? Begin by having a "people" whose minds are liberated, a people not crushed by misery and ceaseless toil, not…

— Romain Rolland