Heavy Quote by Marlene Dumas

For one thing, I don't think art needs to be about suffering; sometimes it really seems like it's only the art about pain that…

— Ellen Forney

Stories distribute the suffering so that it can be borne.

— Anonymous

Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.

— Samuel Beckett

I've seen suffering first-hand, and we have to make sure we relieve people's suffering.

— Jimmy Gomez

Stories always have held conflicts and contrasts, highs and lows, life and death situations. And there can be much suffering in stories, but now…

— David Lynch

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

— Patti Smith

Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's…

— Colm Toibin

So long as one is able to pose one has still much to learn about suffering.

— Ellen Glasgow

Perhaps it is that great suffering is necessary to produce great art.

— Victor Banerjee

“Suffering can precipitate creativity, liberating the creator through inspiration and then many available channels of human communication, and therefore there is value in suffering.”

— Brent Green

Think of suffering as being washed.

— Hafez

Suffering follows a negative thought as the wheels of a cart follow the Oxen that draw it

— The Dhammapada