Art Quote by Patti Smith

I've always been drawn to the hard story, the trauma, because I think art can turn it around.

— Mary Gauthier

Whenever I was presented with hardships - trauma, pain, heartbreak, confusion - I, like so many creatives, turned to my art as medicine.

— Raye

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

— Jonathan Evison

Art keeps me alive. I've obviously been devastated or heartbroken all my life, since my mother's death.

— Madonna Ciccone

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which…

— Laurence Housman

The arts have always been in and around my life.

— Grace Gummer

It might seem difficult to separate my artist and my writing career, but for me, it's just music.

— Ryan Hurd

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.

— Ken Baumann

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

— Jeanette Winterson

Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.

— Nic Pizzolatto

Making music has been connected to one of my greatest heartaches, because my own music has never quite connected with audiences. But it was…

— Vivek Shraya

There's always stress involved in any genre or art form, there's always going to be a struggle. If there's no struggle, you wouldn't do…

— Van Morrison