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“Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.”

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Author:Josh Peck

“Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art.”

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Author:Eric Gibbons

“Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression that affect our hearts, minds and souls and remind us of who we are as human beings, the fragility of our human status and the inevitability of death.”

“I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and sadness.”

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Author:Cornel West

“Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece.”

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Book:The Illustrated Book of Tea

Source: The Illustrated Book of Tea

“This is Darrow, Inadequately scrawled, with his young, old heart, And his drawl, and his infinite paradox And his sadness, and kindness, And his artist sense that drives him to shape his life To something harmonious, even against the schemes of God.”

Heart Young Artist Kindness Sadness Atheism Shapes Infinite Paradox Schemes Harmonious

Author:Edgar Lee Masters

“It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.”

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Author:Ellie Goulding