Quotes About Challenge

The only art I'm interested in is the art I don't understand right away. If you understand it right away it really has no use except as nostalgia.

Life is about fighting. You will going to have to fight everyday of your lifetime.

Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty.

Art must take to the road and risk all for the glory of adventure.

I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world

Art has an obligation to offend

Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.

To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.

The mountain decides whether you climb or not. The art of mountaineering is knowing when to go, when to stay, and when to retreat.

Punch a black belt in the face, he becomes a brown belt. Punch him again, purple.

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.

It's hard to play with a bagpipe player. It's like an exotic bird. I love the sound, it's like strangling a goose.

I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances.

A game played with serious problems. That's what art is.

Whenever things sound easy, it turns out there's one part you didn't hear.

It is either easy or impossible.

There is no losing in Jiu-Jitsu. You either win or you learn.

Being an artist and having to be responsible for the art that you make is really quite challenging, and as you get older it becomes more and more difficult.

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.