Quotes About Struggle

But maybe that's how it is with art. You suffer, and in the end, everyone thinks it's cool.

That's what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call "personality", or maybe even "pain".

We suicide ourselves for our own survival. Is there any hope of dipping back into the past and circling round it like you can in art?

Pain fuels artistry and creativity. Harness your suffering and become a master of your art.

I may have stumbledand stammered at your unexpected push, but the breezeanchored me and I learnt the art of survival

Art is the product of an imperfect world. In an ideal world, art would not exist.

Art is the product of an imperfect world. In a perfect world, art would not exist.

No one ever claimed that creating art was simple. But they failed to mention the mess.

My response to stress is just as complex as my artwork.

Nothing's better for art than a little old-fashioned suffering.

An artist is like a handicaphe needs his art to carry himself.

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

Just a beginner, but he learned so fast. Everything came so damn easy to him. Not true. The hard things cam easy. But the easy things he found impossibly hard.

No art is harder to master than believing in yourself.

There's a fine line between minimalism and not trying very hard.

The creation of art requires descent into the dark.

The creative hopeless.

Nothing seems to me more tragic than the pressures we put on artists to do what we think we'll like, and our refusal to prize what is most ornery and special about them.

Not having enough talent seemed almost worse than not having any, because having a little meant having just enough to know what you lacked

I had considered myself some kind of genius and had considerably underestimated the toils and difficulties encountered along the path to an art.

That a work of creation struggles and insistently demands to be brought into being is a fact that no genuine artist would think of denying.

After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it.

Our existence has always and everywhere been tragic, but man has converted these numberless tragedies into works of art. I know of nothing more astonishing or more wonderful than this transformation.

If I were you I'd put that away. See you're just wasted and thinking about the past again, darling you'll be okay.