Quotes About Challenge

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?

The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering.

The great challenge is how to make smart, intelligent art that can speak to everybody.

Every great artist has the sense of provocation.

Making art is nothing but risk, always. If it's not risk, it's no good.

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

The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace.

Art should offend people because art should challenge people.

I wanted to kill art for myself.. ..a new thought for that object.

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.

The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.

All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.

I quite like it to be risky. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet. I've arrived at that point in the art world where there really is a chair that you sit in.

Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.

Many with careers in the art world are intimidated, and afraid to speak out against the gospels of Modernist theory.

What I'm doing in writing has been thoroughly and exhaustively explored in other fields like visual art, music, and cinema, yet somehow it's never really been tested on the page.

What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.

Comedy is very hard, but you have to learn the art and science of it.

The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that's already of discomfort inside of you and tap into that.

It's sometimes hard to talk about politics and art. Obviously, I have my core beliefs, but I think art is best when it's troublesome and pushes against stuff.

I think that my responsibility to my art is to try to get it right or to push the boundaries of what I'm able to do in any way.

Art and resistance are great together. That's what art's made for. Look at Vincent van Gogh: He didn't cut off his ear because he was selling well.