Art Quote by Paul Auster

I think that in Sweden and a lot of European countries, there's this whole mythology of the wounded artist: that you can't really do…

— Joel Kinnaman

I suppose I do believe that the greatest art consoles a wound that it creates, that art can give you the capacity to endure…

— Christian Wiman

“No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid.”

— Oscar Wilde

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

— Ira Sachs

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

— Naomi Watts

No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

— Oscar Wilde

There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making.

— John Currin

They say that art comes from the soul. The more drama in an artist's life, the more he can draw on for his art.…

— Robin Leach

Art is one of the few places where you can put it in a constructive way where it won't burn you up inside or…

— Eric Drooker

People who die in an untimely way who are artists, somehow that validates their art, we feel. Why culturally we feel that, I don't…

— Kevin Macdonald

Art is subjective and, as an artiste, if our artistic work is not appreciated by the majority, it hurts.

— Badshah

I believe that any form of art is a species of exploration and transgression. ... Art by its nature is a transgressive act, and…

— Joyce Carol Oates