Quotes About Challenge

I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose. I feel myself walking on a tightrope instead of on the ground.

There's nothing more difficult than a line.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

Ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy is called entangling.

Find the most puzzling kind of art you can think of, and then go out and try to approximate it with your camera. Take a photograph that corresponds to it. (Assignment to students.)

Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always do it to try to push my own envelope to be the best I can be.

If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.

I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities.

Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right into the studio.

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

There's no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish.

Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck.

Creativity is an act of defiance.

Criticism is easy, art is difficult.

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

Songwriting's never been a natural art for me; it's always been a bit of a struggle.

The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.

Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?

How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy!... He who has not felt the difficulties of his art does nothing that counts.

What was great about the 50s is that for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art.

I think a philistine environment should be bracing for young artists. You have to make your own enjoyment, you've got to make your own art.

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

Art means to dare - and to have been right.

He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery.