Quotes About Struggle

Life is about fighting. You will going to have to fight everyday of your lifetime.

How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn't pull the trigger?

I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.

I just do art because I'm ugly and there's nothing else for me to do.

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

It's hard to play with a bagpipe player. It's like an exotic bird. I love the sound, it's like strangling a goose.

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

A game played with serious problems. That's what art is.

All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

Being an artist and having to be responsible for the art that you make is really quite challenging, and as you get older it becomes more and more difficult.

Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.

Art is a jealous mistress.

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 very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

I get angry about things, then go on and work.

The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.

You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

Making art in America is about saving one's soul.