Art Quote by Paul Gauguin

I am a great artist and I know it. It's because I am that I have endured such sufferings.

— Paul Gauguin

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

— Naomi Watts

“Artists thrive on suffering.”

— Irving Stone

I once heard some idiot on the radio saying that all great art has suffering as its dominant theme, and that the greatest artists…

— Bart Yates

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

— Jonathan Evison

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

— Victor Banerjee

Great artists suffer for the people.

— Marvin Gaye

A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...]

— Gary Shteyngart

...why is an artist an artist? Artists simply do feel and see things in a different way to other people. In a way it's…

— Roger Waters

What all of us artists are doing is using our pain as material to create our work.

— Yoko Ono

“Pain fuels artistry and creativity. Harness your suffering and become a master of your art.”

— Michelle C. Hillstrom

Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.

— Samuel Beckett