Dream Quote by Maya Angelou

People become artists out of despair.

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for…

— Francis Bacon

When anyone seriously pursues an art - painting, poetry, sculpture, composing - over twenty or thirty years, the sustained discipline carries the artist down…

— Robert Bly

It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience has brought us is worth our personal share of pain.…

— George Eliot

“Something is always born out of too deep grief. Just when you grope for balance, art is born out of a compelling desire to…

— Jayita Bhattacharjee

If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.

— George Santayana

I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing.

— Heather O'Neill

“What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has no position…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

— Oscar Wilde

I've always felt like I needed to experience some type of anguish in order to feel productive as an artist.

— Michelle Zauner

There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me - those are some of the things that lead…

— Mahershala Ali

“A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is…

— Jorge Luis Borges