Acquisition Quote by Rita Mae Brown

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

— Victor Banerjee

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

— Gary Shteyngart

I've always liked this idea that writing should comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable to create trouble. The value of a work of…

— David Shields

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

“Suffering can precipitate creativity, liberating the creator through inspiration and then many available channels of human communication, and therefore there is value in suffering.”

— Brent Green

Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.

— Samuel Beckett

Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain.

— Anonymous

Stories always have held conflicts and contrasts, highs and lows, life and death situations. And there can be much suffering in stories, but now…

— David Lynch

Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's…

— Colm Toibin

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

“tragedy is suffering elevated into art, it’s art that helps humans endure—and sometimes even transcend—their suffering. It’s”

— Jean Hegland