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I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. (Maya Angelou)
You feel frustrated, depressed and life is unbearable, because you can't do the one thing you love to do most... (Rachel Ballon)
Keep painting your demons. (Jack Beal)
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy. (Boethius)
Sharing our depressions felt like having survived a war. The experience bonds you to the other person for life. (Art Buchwald)
In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer. (Albert Camus)
The world is horrid right straight through and so am I... I want to grouch and sulk and rip and snort. I am a pail of milk that has gone sour. (Emily Carr)
The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape. (Leonard Cohen)
From these broken days of anguish, some day soon I'm gonna rise, / I'm gonna raise my head to Heaven, I'm gonna fly the starry skies. (Donovan)
May I not forget that poverty and riches are of the spirit. Though the world knows me not, may my thoughts and actions be such as will keep me friendly with myself. (Max Ehrmann)
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm. (Euripides)
Every act of life, from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner, became an effort. I hated the night when I couldn't sleep and I hated the day because it went toward night. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression. (Robert Genn)
Depression needs to lift and clutter needs to disband. Even these two elements serve a purpose in the path to a new piece of work. Clutter meets clutter, and creates a spark. In the lull of a dark cloud and sedate thought, images come. (Gail Griffiths)
That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as "The Artist's Reward." (Ernest Hemingway)
What's the use? The people are too stupid. They do not understand. (Winslow Homer)
To some degree depression is a function of unconscious anger. Pay attention to your angry feelings. Don't feel guilty about them. (Steve Hovland)
There were times when depression, anxiety, whatever, would keep me from writing. I still get depressed and anxious, but I just don't let it stop me. I've just learned to move it to one side if I want to work. (David St. John)
I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. (John Keats)
In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love. (Soren Kierkegaard)
My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define. (Lee Krasner)
The nearer the dawn the darker the night. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
The shades of an artist's depression are much deeper and cross a greater tonal value than the average bear's. (Cyd Madsen)
The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression. (Eric Maisel)
Just remember that the darkest night did not turn out all the stars. (Louis L. Mann)
Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up. (Ann-Marie McDonald)
I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture. (Claude Monet)
To have gone to all this trouble to get to this is just too stupid! Outside there's brilliant sunshine but I don't feel up to looking at it... (Claude Monet)
When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind. (Michel de Montaigne)
I have not worked at all... Nothing seems worth putting down – I seem to have nothing to say – it appalls me but that is the way it is. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Storms make trees take deeper roots. (Dolly Parton)
Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands. (May Sarton)
This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this. (Charles Schulz)
Once a depressed person becomes active and hopeful, self-esteem always improves. Bolstering self-esteem without changing hopelessness, without changing passivity, accomplishes nothing. (Martin Seligman)
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. (William Shakespeare)
No rain. No rainbows. (unknown)
The more melancholic I get, the deeper art I can feel. Although I like what I sense, I am afraid of my destiny. Next time I look at Van Gogh or Gerstl, I do not want to ask myself if I still want to live. (Milos Vujasinovic)
Make a child a painting and he'll be happy for a day. Teach a child to paint and he'll be miserable for a lifetime. (Christopher Willard)
In every dark room, there is a breeze coming from somewhere and we have to search for it, learn how to use it and enjoy it. (Mona Youssef)
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