Struggling Artist Quotes

#1. I love being a struggling artist; it makes me feel very alive.

Jonathan Evison

#2. 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

#3. I've dated the sweet mama's boy, the musician rocker, the struggling artist - basically a lot of people without jobs.

Alyssa Milano

#4. If you're a struggling artist having money problems just superglue a brick in the middle of a blanket, and call it art. Someone will buy it.

Nicole McKay

#5. There's almost nothing worse to live with than a struggling artist.

John Updike

#6. I can live in L.A. as a struggling artist. I cannot live in New York as a struggling artist.

Gina Rodriguez

#7. Above all, Danny Boyle's 'Slumdog Millionaire' is the work of an artist at the peak of his powers. India is his palette, and Mumbai - that teeming 'maximum city', with 19 million strivers on the make, jostling, scheming, struggling and killing for success - is his brush.

Shashi Tharoor

#8. Is woman a lost sex? If so, is she the only lost sex? Has woman alone conceived all the vipers in our land?

Elizabeth Hawes

#9. Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine.

Bernard Cornwell

#10. When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account ...

Hiroko Sakai

#11. The privilege of struggling artists is ... the life being buried in what we can't really afford of* what a gorgeous life!!

Hiroko Sakai

#12. Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.

Jack Kerouac

#13. We have reached a profound point in economic history where the truth is unpalatable to the political class - and that truth is that the scale and magnitude of the problem is larger than their ability to respond - and it terrifies them.

Hugh Hendry

#14. 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

#15. You want car?' Rena said. 'Artist college? You think I don't know? How you think you pay? So this dress. Pretty dress. Someone gave. But money is ... ' She stopped, struggling to find the words, what money was. Finally, she threw her hands up. 'Money. You want remember, so just remember.

Janet Fitch

#16. If a tree falls in the woods and no one's around to hear it, it still very probably makes a sound. A baseball game that's played with no one around to watch it, though that's a different proposition.

Carson Cistulli

#17. Then they decided that the fleas that lived on Siamese cats would probably be more intelligent than the fleas that lived on just ordinary alley cats. It only made sense that drinking intelligent blood would make intelligent fleas.

Richard Brautigan

#18. 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

#19. You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from.

Tatiana Maslany

#20. Only in rare instances and with rare individuals does there seem to be any guiding light from within.

Theodore Dreiser

#21. 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

#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. With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move into late middle age, still struggling without health insurance or a cushion. I saw people who had given up being artists. Being an artist necessitates a compromise or living on the edge.

Kate Christensen