Best anxiety & art Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It is a great art to succeed in having your soul sanctified. A person can become a saint anywhere. He can become a saint in Omonia Square, if he wants. At your work, whatever it may be, you can become a saint through meekness, patience, and love. Make a new start every day, with new resolution, with enthusiasm and love, prayer and silence - not with anxiety so that you get a pain in the chest.”

“I think making any art requires a certain degree of high anxiety and total abandon.”

Thinking Art Certain Degrees Anxiety Abandon High Anxiety

Author:David Crabb

“In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us... The artist lives with anxiety.”

Feels Humans Art Ends Artist Bits Produce Goes On Anxiety Balanced Neurosis Being An Artist Imbalance

Author:Beverly Pepper

“In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us. I often think that all I want to do now is to avoid suicide, accidental or otherwise. Other than that, I think living on the edge is what drives my work and me beyond a certain point. The artist lives with anxiety. When you finally reach a plateau of achievement, there comes a new anxiety - the hunger to push on still further. That angst is what makes you go forward.”

“The highest art is where has been most perfectly breathed the sentiment of humanity...Some persons suppose that landscape has no power of communicating human sentiment. But this is a great mistake. The civilized landscape peculiarly can: and therefore I love it more and think it more worthy of reproduction than that which is savage and untamed. It is more significant. Every act of man, every thing of labor, effort, suffering, want, anxiety, necessity, love, marks itself wherever it has been.”

“The moment before I jump is filled with anxiety and what-ifs. But then as soon as I enter the air, I'm filled with this calmness and that's the main attraction to it. That's why I do these death-consequence pursuits or arts.”

Ifs Art Moments Air Anxiety Consequence Filled Attraction Pursuit Calmness

Author:Dean Potter

“The experience of beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say. The artist's relation to the object of beauty, how the art makes that happen, is a whole other subject. Beauty is an event. Beauty is something that happens. There is no such thing as a beautiful object or a beautiful woman. These things do not come near it - the experience of beauty, the event of beauty. The anxiety about it is what makes it such a central concern of culture and makes us so interested in it.”

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Author:Jonathan Santlofer

“Culture gives us each a sense that life has meaning and that we have value - by offering us assurances of immortality. Either literally, through the heavens, the soul's afterlives or reincarnation, or by the prospect that some vestige of ourselves will persist over time - from having kids, amassing great fortunes or producing great works of art or science. Yet no culturally constructed symbolic belief system is ever powerful enough to completely eradicate the anxiety that is engendered by the awareness of death.”

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Author:Sheldon Solomon

“For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.”

Long Art I Can Feelings Remember Artist Anxiety Deep Feeling

Book:Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist

Source: Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist

“My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder. My art is grounded in reflections over being different from others. My sufferings are part of my self and my art. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art. I want to keep those sufferings”

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Author:Edvard Munch

“Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege.”

Art Seems Care Enjoy Cities Greater Blessing Anxiety Towns Envy Plague Siege Under Siege

Author:Voltaire

“You have to take the responsibility totally, that it is you who decides either to be in misery or to be in blessing. If you want misery, have more desires. If you want a blissfulness, then learn the art - even for few moments - of being desireless, and you will be surprised. Even for a few moments, if you are desireless, all anguish, all anxiety disappears. And you are so contented, so fulfilled, that you cannot ask for more. Your blessing is so much that you can only say that you bless the whole existence. Still it will be there. It is so much; it is overflowing.”

Ifs Want Art Stills Whole Moments Desire Asks Existence Responsibility Blessing Anxiety Misery Disappear Bless Fulfilled Anguish

Author:Rajneesh

“I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art. I followed the thread of art and somehow discovered a path that would allow me to live.”

Art Pain Fighting Found Path Anxiety Creating Method Illness Thread Creating Art Anxiety And Fear

Book:Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama

Source: Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama

“I’m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire”

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Author:Gregory Crewdson

“Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented - which is what fear and anxiety do to a person - into something whole.”

Persons Art Ideas Whole Anxiety Art Is Damage Restoration Fragmented

Author:Louise Bourgeois

“I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.”

Art Bigs Wish Interesting Anxiety

Author:Roy Lichtenstein

“The art of never making a mistake is crucial to motherhood. To be effective and to gain the respect she needs to function, a mother must have her children believe she has never engaged in sex, never made a bad decision, never caused her own mother a moment's anxiety, and was never a child.”

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Book:Four of a Kind: A Suburban Field Guide

Source: Four of a Kind: A Suburban Field Guide

“Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.”

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Author:Chuck Jones

“No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initial failure and subsequent success, in the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation. We suffer because we cannot spontaneously master the ingredients of fulfillment.”

“But when we reduce sex to a function, we also invoke the idea of dysfunction. We are no longer talking about the art of sex; rather, we are talking about the mechanics of sex. Science has replaced religion as the authority; and science is a more formidable arbiter. Medicine knows how to scare even those who scoff at religion. Compared with a diagnosis, what's a mere sin? We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.”

“The most important key to bettering yourself - is just that "yourself" - (g swiss)”

“I write letters to you that you’ll never see.”

“He looked at me, that first day, like he had just found something he’d lost a thousand years ago.”

“In the old days, when travelers would get lost, they would follow the stars and I love that idea. I wish that I could rely on something as simple and magnificent as a star for all of my aching questions.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“But I love you and I want you and I need you. Can’t you see that? This world has nothing to offer me if it doesn’t include you.”

“I ruin everything. I think that a bullet must have passed through my heart when I was very young, causing me to bleed out slowly, over things and people and every white surface that I’d ever come across.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“It feels like the world is folding up around me, like origami paper, and I’m trapped inside of its breathless center.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“I don’t ever want to hurt anyone, but I really wish there was something like a reset button on my life.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“I wish that love could be broken down the way it breaks me down.”

“You haunt my days and dreams.”

“The Fall will always be yours and mine…”

“Time' is the most threatening four letter word.”

“I’m tired of justifying why I love someone. I’m done with the explaining.”

“That last time you kissed me my heart slid past your teeth down into the center of your chest… trapping us both in a stainless cage.”

“I want to understand the strings that are tied between me and certain other people and if they really can stretch through infinite time and space without ever breaking. Are soul mates real, and is my life ever going to make sense?”

“He could pour himself into my little paper cup heart and my emptiness would finally have a meaning.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“So much has been done to my body, and still, somehow, not enough.”

“I tried to push my body through his and completely disappear.”

“I feel like a paper cut just waiting to bleed.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“I wish on one of the stars for divine orchestration and save the rest of them for all of the other girls in the world who will feel like I do tonight.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“Standing naked on the beach with all of my secrets between my legs, I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself…”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“I kept waiting for the part where I’d finally know who I was — some flashing, neon moment of relief, but it never came.”

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