Amanda Harlech Quotes

Art comes from joy and pain...But mostly from pain.

Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.

The biggest problem for me was feeling that as I became more balanced and a better man that I wouldn't have the fire to create from.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

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

I don't thrive on misery myself. I mean, I've obviously created during a time of misery, but I also create from a place of joy.

Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

Usually when I draw, I try to be in a contemplative mood. I try to keep my mind as empty, vacant and tranquil as possible. The outer mind is like the surface of the sea. On the surface, the sea is full of waves and surges; it is all restlessness. But when we dive deep below, the same sea is all peace, calmness and quiet, and there we find the source of creativity.

Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse. Art doesn't work without pain; art also exists for compensating pain.

First, meditation, and then out of meditation comes creativity of its own accord.

When you first awaken or before drifting off to sleep, quiet your mind, lift up your heart, muse, mull over, make discoveries. Consider, conceive, create, connect, concede that it all starts within.

I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.

I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.

I love artists. I find them fascinating. To me, there really is a genuine magic in what they do.

Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.

Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am.

There is real beauty in my eyes when I lose my mind.

If you have a little sensibility or a heart, you have all the reason to be depressed once in a while. But the depression is like a motor for creation. I need a little bit of depression, a bit of acid in my stomach, to be able to create. When I'm happy, I just want to dance.

I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?'

Much of the stress and emptiness that haunt us can be traced back to our lack of attention to beauty. Internally, the mind becomes coarse and dull if it remains unvisited by images and thoughts that hold the radiance of beauty.

Art is born of humiliation.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.

You need to suffer to be interesting.

So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.