Quotes About Struggle

I believe only in art and failure.

Pain is not a conduit to art or joy

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

When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.

It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.

But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee.

We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.

I've been circling the wagons down at Times Square, trying to fill up this hole in my soul but nothing fits in there.

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.

Shouldering your loneliness like a gun that you will not learn to aim, you stumble into this movie house then you climb, you climb into the frame.

Ah, but art and trouble go hand in hand. If you cannot be troubled to create art from your heart, then your art will never trouble the heart of others.

A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.

Sculpture may be almost anything: a monument, a statue, an old coin, a bas-relief, a portrait bust, a lifelong struggle against heavy odds.

Art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.

You're laughing at everything that's bringing me down.

It's hard to make a living in music, so a lot of times in the arts it's safer to kind of fit into a box.

There's always been a struggle with filmmakers between art and industry, and you have to find a balance

All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.

How do you rebel in a family of rebels? That's the age-old question. I guess I could have by not going into the arts, but the thing is, I couldn't do anything else.

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.

I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.

I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.

She's staring down her desires, while they're staring down her dress.

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