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“An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer.”

Needs Mean Artist Suffering

Author:Joe Wright

“I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters.”

Thinking Feels Should Persons Art Matter Pain Artist Suffering Like You Demon Pain And Suffering

Author:Marilyn Manson

“The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.”

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Author:T. S. Eliot

“A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.”

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Book:Truth and Fantasy from My Life

Source: Truth and Fantasy from My Life

“The artist doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. Have it on the screen but have the people come out of the theater into a world of peace, of a beautiful world. They don't have to suffer in their lives.”

People World Shows Beautiful Artist Suffering Theater Screens Beautiful World

Author:David Lynch

“I view all art as an effort to translate brain concepts into a work. These brain concepts are synthetic ones - the result of many experiences. But a single work of art, or even a series of works, more often than not cannot translate these synthetic concepts adequately. Yves Saint Laurent once said that he suffered greatly when creating. He is not alone in that. Most artists do the same and say as much.”

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Author:Semir Zeki

“l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than l, which is my life — the power to create.”

Wells I Can Artist Suffering Greater Atheism Painting Without God

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“I've got to think about what I'm going to say very carefully. There's two avenues of thought: Do you stop everyone going, ban all the artists coming in from Russia? But then you're really leaving the men and women who are gay and suffering under the antigay laws in an isolated situation. As a gay man, I can't leave those people on their own without going over there and supporting them. I don't know what's going to happen, but I've got to go.”

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Author:Elton John

“The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his art; and when he turns his back on his own suffering, he denies the very laws of his being and closes the door on everything that can ever make him great.”

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Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“In Nirvana, it is you, my friend, who goes away. You take an eraser and erase yourself. It's like the Road Runner cartoons where in the middle of the cartoon, the hand of the artist appears on the screen and erases the Road Runner.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“There's a cultural conviction that any 'artist' must have personal suffering to back up their work, otherwise there's something undeserved and therefore inauthentic about it, perhaps even some sort of cheating.”

Artist Suffering Conviction Cheating

Author:Jenny Diski