Quotes About Challenge

I never want to discourage anyone who chooses the arts as a path because it's hard enough to make it in this business or even get ahead.

Photography has always been a struggle for me to take seriously as an art form.

Preparing to lose is easy, but losing is hard. Preparing to win is hard, but winning is then easy.

It is not easy to recover an art when once lost.

I am interested in risk, in art as well as in the realm of politics.

I think a lot of becoming an entrepreneur is something which people have to learn just from getting out there and giving it a go, and having to learn the art of survival.

There exists no more difficult art than living.

I think about art a lot only in two contexts. One is narrative... The other thing that I'm interested in, which is tangential, but not unrelated... All art to me is about problem solving.

In a way, art has always been my way of problem-solving, of getting through situations, of finding my response to things, so to imagine doing something else makes me panic a little bit.

The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones.

The real hero must fail in order to succeed.

One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience.

I'm really happy I was kicked out of CalArts (for a controversial art piece I made).

I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult.

Fine art is the discipline of breaking rules.

Trying to live up to yourself is the most trying thing.

I intend to destroy, destroy everything that exists in painting. I have utter contempt for painting.

Don't we all know that art is dangerous. You play it - then you live it.

No one ever claimed that creating art was simple. But they failed to mention the mess.

Just a beginner, but he learned so fast. Everything came so damn easy to him. Not true. The hard things cam easy. But the easy things he found impossibly hard.

Some of the greatest masterpieces of art are created against the odds of reality.from the book: stuff i think about

If you don't know it's impossible, it's easier to do.