Any Quote by Joel Kinnaman

I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.

— Paul Auster

I feel every medium of art needs to heal to some degree. It can't live in it's own void, and this came from my…

— Masiela Lusha

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 a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

— Fernando Botero

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I once heard some idiot on the radio saying that all great art has suffering as its dominant theme, and that the greatest artists…

— Bart Yates

Art is a kind of illness.

— Giacomo Puccini

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

— Naomi Watts

People who die in an untimely way who are artists, somehow that validates their art, we feel. Why culturally we feel that, I don't…

— Kevin Macdonald

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

— Randall Jarrell

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

— Jean Hegland

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