Art Quote by Steven Pressfield

The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to…

— Steven Pressfield

“How could we be miserable, when there is music?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“He had never met anyone who played music for a living who wasn’t fucked-up in some sad or depraved way, the same as those…

— Donald Ray Pollock

“Why are we miserable, when there is music?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“He wanted to be an artist, an artist of life wasn't enough for him, although precisely this concept provides everything we need to be…

— Thomas Bernhard

“I am an artist. And An artist is simply a man who is pulled along by a river: on one side sanity lies, and…

— Félix J. Palma

“The worst that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.”

— Joanna Rakoff

“With the love of music, there will be no misery in life.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody and something other than the person he is in body and mind.”

— Dale Carnegie

“That’s the thing about art. It really helps to be unhappy.”

— Jonathan Hull

“There is always a mysterious conflict in every artist; if life treats him roughly he longs for peace and calm, but if he comes…

— Stefan Zweig