Artistic Pain Quotes

I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.

I have a hard time being happy, and I think a lot of creative people suffer with that when life gets real happy.

When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.

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

All writers are vampires.

I'm very painful to deal with when I create a shoe.

Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall.

As for me, this is my story: I worked and was tortured. You know what it means to compose? No, thank God, you do not! I believe you have never written to order, by the yard, and have never experienced that hellish torture.

Writers talk about the agony of writing; I talk about the agony of not writing.

Music, the knife without a hilt.

What I've become convinced makes a writer are the days you hate it, the days you'd rather stick those pencils in your eyes. Sometimes I almost punish myself - if I'm not going be able to write, I'm not going be able to do anything else. I just sit there and wait.

Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.

With writing, I love doing it, but there's that love-hate relationship: You're not having a good run, you've hit a wall; it's frustrating.

I hate everything about writing except doing it.

Writing is a delicious agony.

I thought originally when I was in school and I wanted to be a poet, I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

I like writing, and I enjoy it. It's painful. You can't get around the pain of writing. I'm still trying to balance on what I think is my creative habit. It varies, but I do know that I need to continue. It helps me with my acting, and the writing helps me be invested in a different way.

We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.

Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.

You'll need to suffer to make any real art.