Art Quote by John Currin

“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

People in misery is what most important in art.

— Zhang Yimou

Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness.

— Gerhard Richter

I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because…

— David Hockney

Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.

— Josh Peck

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

— Randall Jarrell

“No art can possibly comfort HER then, even though art is credited with so many things, especially an ability to offer solace. Sometimes, of…

— Elfriede Jelinek

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

— Don Roff

I think art is a healing force, and if we give in to the joy that can be found in art, then we are…

— Ntozake Shange

To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.

— Zhang Yimou

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

— George Santayana

The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having.

— Michael Kimmelman