Quotes About Rejection

An insult angers me. Being ignored crushes me.

I took the sing from your song. I made a bed where you don't belong.

The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead.

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

Art is a bad word in Hollywood. You use art too many times and they show you the elevator and then your name is taken off the parking lot.

I've been slagged off completely by the art world and I don't know whether fancy being slagged off by the literary world as well. It's just too much.

Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed off about it.

I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.

Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.

It's frightening for one artist to see another one, any other one turn away from art.

Only in art can you make something that no one wants and still be considered successful.

The key to attempting to create art in some aspect is also knowing that it will turn some people off.

I'm not turned on, so put away that meat you're selling.

I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a cartoonist.

O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.

The more you put yourself out there, the more there is for people to take exception with.

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

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

The heart of [J.G.] Ballard's vision [is] the object at odds with its function and abandoned by its time.

The harder you work, the more you produce, the more you create, the more you will be rejected. By people who never created shit.

Everybody wanted me to be rich and famous on my art. And I said no to all the commercials and all the seedy offers.

Do not have an attitude, open yourself and focus yourself and express yourself. Reject external form that fails to express internal reality.

Mirabelle is not affected by a man's failures to approach her, as her own self-depreciating attitude never allows the idea that he would in the first place.