Best art-is & hard Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine. Oh, hard is the struggle, and sparse is The gain of the one at the top, For art is a form of catharsis, And love is a permanent flop, And work is the province of cattle, And rest's for a clam in a shell, So I'm thinking of throwing the battle - Would you kindly direct me to hell?”

Source: Collected poems: Not so deep as a well

“A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises the understanding upon things out of ourselves, while it leaves the affections unemployed, or engrossed with our own immediate, narrow interests.”

Art Hard Character Understanding Interest Exercise Taste Art Is Affection Gentleman Unemployed Liberal Arts

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“The martial arts are based upon understanding, hard work and a total comprehension of skills. Power training and the use of force are easy, but total comprehension of all of the skills of the martial arts is very difficult to achieve.”

Art Hard Use Force Easy Difficult Understanding Achieve Hard Work Skills Training Art Is Martial Arts Comprehension Use Of Force

Book:Tao of Jeet Kune Do

Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“Art is beautiful but it is hard, like a religion without a purpose.”

Art Hard Beautiful Purpose Art Is

Book:Günter Brus, Bild-Dichtungen: Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 4 June-13 July 1980 ...

Source: Günter Brus, Bild-Dichtungen: Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 4 June-13 July 1980 ...

“The Byzantines hammered away at their hard and orthodox symbols, because they could not be in a mood to believe that men could take a hint. The moderns drag out into lengths and reels of extravagance their new orthodoxy of being unorthodox, because they also cannot give a hint -- or take a hint. Yet all perfect and well-poised art is really a hint.”

Men Giving Believe Wells Art Hard Perfect Art Is Mood Symbols Length Orthodox Drag Hints Orthodoxy Extravagance Hammered Unorthodox Byzantine

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I don't think life owes me anything and the business doesn't owe me anything. The only way to approach it is by working hard and loving what you do. If you do that and have faith, maybe you will get lucky. I mean that sincerely and specifically. I truly believe that no professional career in the arts is capable without a healthy dose of luck.”

Ifs Thinking Way Believe Mean Art Hard Careers Healthy Lucky Approach Capable Art Is Luck Have Faith Sincerely Dose Professional Career Loving What You Do

Author:Bryan Cranston

“Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.”

Art Ideas Hard Feelings Inspiration Struggle Hard Work Art Is Sweat Good Ideas Make You Happy Good Art

Author:Damien Hirst

“People for whom art is religion can say, "What I love about art is that it points to a higher reality." Well, fine, but the time comes when the smart thing for such a person to do is to let go of the fun of the art and get into the hard work of attaining and understanding that higher reality, unmixed with worldly games.”

People Wells Persons Art Hard Reality Games Fun Understanding Hard Work Fine Higher Letting Go Smart Art Is Worldly

Author:Jim Woodring

“Art is hard for a puritan to understand.”

Art Hard Art Is Puritan

Author:Gunter Grass

“Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.”

Thinking Long Art Hard Opportunity Easy Difficult Judgment Expectations Art Is Our Thoughts Cheerful Long Life Threshold Transient Short Life Troublesome

Book:Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels

Source: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels

“I think that there is a purity aesthetic, like "I just make art because I'm an artist and I can't help it. I don't care what the critics say." But different mediums have a different relationship with the public. If you're in a performing medium it's hard not to place some weight on whether or not people come to your shows, or whether or not they're enjoying them.”

People Ifs Thinking Art I Can Different Hard Helping Shows Care Artist Enjoy Art Is Weight Critics Don't Care Mediums I Don't Care Performing Purity Aesthetic Different Relationships

Author:Mirah

“Music and art is about ideas, I think. Especially music. You have the freedom to work with your ideas and your dreams and your fantasies, which is quite hard to do in many other places.”

Thinking Art Ideas Hard Dream Fantasy Art Is Your Dreams

Author:Karin Dreijer Andersson

“I wrote on my desk wall when I was writing the film...'Art is socialism, but life is capitalism.' That's the hard thing in all of it if you expect to make a living.”

Ifs Writing Art Hard Film Life Is Wall Art Is Capitalism Socialism Desks Hard Things

Author:Mike Birbiglia

“It's about communication, no matter how impossibly hard your art is to understand and how much of an ivory tower or high horse you get on, it's still basically communication or why are you doing it?”

Art Stills Matter Hard Communication Art Is Horse Towers Ivory Ivory Tower

Author:Wayne White

“Ivy [Wilkes] does exhibit a certain impatience at the beginning of the book [The Dissemblers]. She doesn't want to wait through years of hard work and insignificance to make her mark on the art world. Part of her growth is in realizing - even embracing - that the process of art is more important than the product or the recognition.”

“The art of walking on quicksand is still beyond me. What I learned is only how difficult this art is to master and how hard people need to struggle to learn it.”

People Needs Art Stills Hard Difficult Struggle Masters Walking Art Is Quicksand

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“I want to be the person whose art is accessible, who someone could look at and say "That's doesn't look so hard, I could do that."”

Want Looks Persons Art Hard Art Is

Author:Liz Prince

“It's sometimes hard to talk about politics and art. Obviously, I have my core beliefs, but I think art is best when it's troublesome and pushes against stuff.”

Thinking Art Sometimes Hard Belief Stuff Art Is Core Troublesome Core Beliefs

Author:Robert Greene

“Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain ourselves too hard trying to distinguish between the author's persona and the poem's lyrical hero. As a rule, such distinctions are quite meaningless, if only because a lyrical hero is invariably an author's self-projection.”

Ifs Trying Art Book Self Hard Hero Art Is Distinction Meaningless Portraits Strain Projection Persona Lyrical Self Portrait Self Portrait Photography

Author:Joseph Brodsky

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