Quotes About Challenge

All of those art-based fields are similar in that they're all hard to make a living in and they all require an intense amount of training and discipline.

How hard, how desperately hard, is the way of the experimenter in art!

The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.

It's surprising that readers don't see challenging writing as morally hazardous, when it might be pushing the same kinds of boundaries as art does.

There was an old brochure for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts with a quote from Robert Redford or someone, that said, "You're only as good as you dare to be bad."

For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and art collectors.

Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly.

There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.

I see a flower. It gives me a sensation of the beautiful. I wish to paint it. And as soon as I wish to paint it I see the whole subject - flower - changed. It is now an art problem to resolve.

But generally speaking, people weren't fired, art jobs were very hard to get, so something really calamitous had to happen to a person who was working there in order for you to find a space.

Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions.

The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.

Art cannot be above the battle.

I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.

We go for our own reality. I remember some of our guys saying it is way harder to make stylized art directed explosions of jade rather than a regular explosion of shrapnel.

It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.

But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee.

We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring

Sometimes it's good to get mad, sometimes it clarifies where we stand. I think that art has the ability to challenge and push, and that's great. That's better than great... it's necessary.

Breakthroughs, in art, in culture, in personality, come when tackling the unexpected.

Obstacles aren't there to stop you. They are put there to show you how powerful you can feel when you run right over them.

It's hard to make a living in music, so a lot of times in the arts it's safer to kind of fit into a box.

I'm not the greatest driver. I don't know if I'll ever master the art.

How do you rebel in a family of rebels? That's the age-old question. I guess I could have by not going into the arts, but the thing is, I couldn't do anything else.