Artist Struggle Quotes

#1. I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views.

Kevin Bacon

#2. I don't have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It's not a conscious effort, nor is it a struggle. Wouldn't do it if it was. The idea of the suffering artist has never appealed to me. Being here is suffering enough.

William Eggleston

#3. A main part of the struggle of art has been to make an art that is direct, simple, humane, unconnected with powers that be in their essence ... To the degree that it is connected with the bourgeoisie via the marketplace and so on is not necessarily an artist's problem.

Robert Motherwell

#4. Transformation of any kind always exacts a holy tussle. The newborn butterfly struggles to open its wings so it can conjure up the strength to fly. So, too, with artists, inventors, mystics, and entrepreneurs.

Tama J. Kieves

#5. The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.

Andre Malraux

#6. 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.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#7. From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

Criss Jami

#8. The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Adrienne Rich

#9. Being a sensitive empath is a beautiful thing as an artist, and it fosters a deep burning curiosity about why we do the things we do.

Alanis Morissette

#10. I had met American artists and just couldn't believe their energy. London was always such a struggle to get anything going.

Roselee Goldberg

#11. In every motions to put colors on my canvas, I feel like I am screaming, "I AM HERE" ... To whom?.. To where? ... Where am I going to ... ?

Hiroko Sakai

#12. I think ... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace on the canvas with all the things he cannot do. That is what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call 'personality,' or maybe even 'pain.'

Kurt Vonnegut

#13. The artist can not serve his struggle for freedom unless he subjectively assimilates the social content, unless he feels in his very nerves its meaning and drama and freely seeks to give his own inner world incarnation in his art.

Leon Trotsky

#14. It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.

Albert Camus

#15. That's one of my struggles as a hip-hop artist. If I feel like doing a super conscious song where I don't even rap.

SonReal

#16. What you respond to in any work of art is the artist's struggle against his or her limitations

Kurt Vonnegut

#17. All artists yearn to struggle, when they struggle they know they're alive.

John Maeda

#18. I'm still the same artist; it's just different sides of me. I'm learning to be a little bit more confident in myself and I think that's something that all of us girls struggle with. It's really about defining your confidence.

Jamie Lynn Spears

#19. It is only after years of struggle and deprivation that the young artist should touch color - and then only in the company of his betters.

El Greco

#20. I'm glad I've had to struggle. It's made me the artist I am now.

Jessie J.

#21. I'm very honest about the things I struggle with and I need to work on to survive as a solo artist.

Aubrey O'Day

#22. All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.

Rollo May

#23. We were really poor when I was growing up; my parents, both artists, were bohemians. Life was a desperate struggle, but in service of a high ideal, which is exactly what my photographs are about.

Justine Kurland

#24. Oh my God, everyday is a constant struggle and battle. Especially with an artist like me, when what I am doing is not the in thing, it is harder to break someone like me. And I'm a woman too, it's ridiculous.

Syleena Johnson

#25. The difference between famous creators and struggling artists is that the creators know that improving the lives of others deserves the highest reward.

Alan Cohen

#26. A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.

Robert Henri

#27. Talk about a struggling artist having to work against enormous odds ... But I love movies so much, so I'm going to do it.

Ariel Pink

#28. An outlaw gulch, a haven for draft resisters, struggling artists, and drug addicts ... a camp for semi-demented adults ... Venice is like the legendary Phoenix - it always seems to rise again from the ashes.

Sara Davidson

#29. During freedom struggle, It were authors and artists who made the Nation stand with their pen, and now their pen can create an environment of renaissance when Independent India is on the path of Good Governance.

Narendra Modi

#30. An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation than in truth and beauty

Jaron Lanier

#31. As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.

Brian Eno

#32. Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.

Henri Matisse

#33. I think that I have grown a lot as an artist. I have been writing about my experiences of love and overcoming the struggles that I have faced in the music industry. I have so much more to tell my fans, and I know so much more about myself. It is crazy how much I have grown over these past years.

Jessica Sanchez

#34. I struggle every day with trying to be a better dad, a better husband, better musician, better artist. It consumes me, and I don't see an end in sight.

Harry Connick Jr.

#35. Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

George Bernard Shaw

#36. An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes ...

Eric Maisel

#37. Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.

Karen O

#38. Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the art.

Philip Schultz

#39. When people see me struggling on paper, I think it invites an almost collaborative relationship with the outside world, and that includes readers and other artists.

Adrian Tomine

#40. It took me 11 years to struggle through one dumb book, and every day you just want to give up. But you don't find out you're an artist because you do something really well.

Junot Diaz