Quotes About Struggle

In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us... The artist lives with anxiety.

This wild swan of a world is no hunter's game.

There's no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish.

Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck.

The highs, the lows, the peaks, the valleys, whatever, it's all going to go into the art, whether I'm singing or acting or whatever.

The arts are not a way to make a living.

As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it absolutely.

Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

Criticism is easy, art is difficult.

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.

Songwriting's never been a natural art for me; it's always been a bit of a struggle.

All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.

Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.

Made a sketch later on the cabin verandah, but it was impossible to keep up with the changes. Oh the difficulties of mountain art for too little genius.

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

We live in constant danger of coming apart. The mystery of why we do not always come apart is the animating tension of all art.

The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back.

How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy!... He who has not felt the difficulties of his art does nothing that counts.

The fine arts thing at college was always too much for me to think about. What I was more involved in was being successful at arts school.

I think a philistine environment should be bracing for young artists. You have to make your own enjoyment, you've got to make your own art.