Anxiety Quote by John Adams

I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.

— David Lynch

A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being…

— Philippe Halsman

“I'd see him do things that didn't fit with his face or hands, things like painting a picture at OT with real paints on…

— Ken Kesey

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

— Anthony Powell

“I was seeing him different than when he first came in; I was seeing more to him than just big hands and red sideburns…

— Ken Kesey

I mean, there was a portion, of course, that I think, when I look back now, that there was a portion of what attracted…

— Monica Lewinsky

“That's what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call "personality", or maybe even "pain".”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a…

— Adelbert von Chamisso

My self portrait shows a man that the wealth tortured, self-absorbed with his own self-forfeit.

— Anonymous

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

— Samuel Butler

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

— Naomi Watts

I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?

— Liz Phair