Always Quote by Michelle Zauner

You don't have to have angst to be an artist, but it's grist to the mill. If you want to explore the whole emotional…

— Cornelia Parker

As an artist you can use your own discomfort and neuroses and difficulties and at least transform them into something else. Without that you're…

— Steve Toltz

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

— Naomi Watts

I love being a struggling artist; it makes me feel very alive.

— Jonathan Evison

What experience has shown me is that it takes your life to become an artist.

— Eric Fischl

In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom…

— Beverly Pepper

I have been and continue to be committed to art as a tool to ignite, comfort, and discomfort.

— Vivek Shraya

I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising…

— Marilyn Manson

Never try to do anything artistic when you're feeling something overwhelming. It's like driving a car: If you're experiencing road rage, pull over.

— Stephin Merritt

If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.

— Franz Kline

For me, artists are the world's pain receptors. That is why they have such a hard time living.

— France Gall

I didn't want to be an artist in the same place I worked. You could always have people that might feel like you would…

— DJ Khaled