Quotes About Struggle

Disillusioned words like bullets bark as human gods aim for their mark.

I get to cry to Barbara Walters, when things don't go my way. I'll get community service no matter which laws I break.

I got a house full of Rembrandts and priceless art, and all the little girls they wanna tear me apart.

We made an amazing video about Newtown's struggle to figure out what to do with all the letters and art sent to the town.

I've always wished that I had a great ability to verbalize art theory and find a way that I fit in to the whole lineage, but I don't have a clue.

A lot of people who get into any art form have some form of mental..something in their head which is unstable

Writers are idiots with Underwoods.

It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.

To the artist, all problems of art appear uniquely personal. Well, that's understandable enough, given that not many other activities routinely call one's basic self-worth into question.

I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.

Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form.

I'm a fool to keep staying, when you've made hurting me such an art.

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.

As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.

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

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

You've got to suffer for your art sometimes!

There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.

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.

Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.

For me, I think [art] exists in a cave. I am in a cave. I have my own editing place, but I'm not powerful enough to amass the resources to keep doing movies every two or three years.

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

Art cannot be above the battle.