Art Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

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

— Yoko Ono

An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation

— Lewis Hyde

Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.

— Julia Cameron

For me, artists are the world's pain receptors. That is why they have such a hard time living.

— France Gall

The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and…

— Carl Jung

“If we are artists- hell, whether or not we're artists- it is our job, our responsibility, perhaps even our sacred calling, to take whatever…

— Dani Shapiro

Art is only a way of expressing pain.

— John Lennon

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

— Al Hirschfeld

“If the creative process is so powerful, it would be natural to wonder why many artists have difficulties in their lives. It is because…

— Robert Fritz

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

— Kanye West

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

— Naomi Watts

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a…

— Charlotte Saunders Cushman