“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?” ThinkingGivingLittlesArtHardFormWaterLove IsStruggleHellMinesBattleProjectsArt IsHumorousGainsDirectAnd LoveWinePermanentThrowingShellsProvincesCattleCatharsisClams Book:Collected poems: Not so deep as a well Source: Collected poems: Not so deep as a well
“The function of art is to struggle against obligation.” ArtStruggleArt IsFunctionObligation Author:Amedeo Modigliani
“Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient struggle against adverse circumstance, by the thrifty use of moderate opportunities. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline which no man need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter upon.” MenNeedsArtUseArtistCoursesOpportunityEffortStruggleHe ManDisciplineCircumstancesArt IsLaborOvercomingDifficultyExcellencePatientActiveLondonImpressionParisRomePassiveGreat ArtModeratesGreat ArtistManlyAdverseEminenceThrifty Author:George Stillman Hillard
“Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.” ArtSaidArtistStruggleTroubleArt IsMaking MoneyDisagree Author:Joe Murray
“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.” ArtIdeasHardFeelingsInspirationStruggleHard WorkArt IsSweatGood IdeasMake You HappyGood Art Author:Damien Hirst
“Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.” ArtPhilosophyAcceptingStruggleJudgmentArt IsInternalsPlatoInternal Struggle Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“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.” PeopleNeedsArtStillsHardDifficultStruggleMastersWalkingArt IsQuicksand Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“I think most people who decide to become a musician have to be prepared for some degree of struggle. It makes the art better if you go through some struggles. To be an artist, in any form, you have to develop some sense of compassion and empathy - it's an important quality for everyone to have, on a human level. But I think, as part of our job, you have to be able to do that, so suffering, tends - if you allow it - to let you look on the bright side. It will help with those senses.” PeopleThinkingArtImportantHelpingArtistSufferingQualityCompassionStruggleMusicianEmpathyArt IsBe PreparedBright Side Author:Reeve Carney
“I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why are they so eager to concede without a struggle the defeat of knowledge; and where does their irrepressible need to belittle rational understanding come from, this rage to affirm the irreducibility of the work of art, or, to use a more suitable word, its transcendence.” NeedsDoeArtUseAsksUnderstandingStruggleArt IsCriticsDefeatDefinitionsPhilosopherSatisfactionRageRationalWorks Of ArtTranscendenceSuitableBelittleIneffableIrrepressibleUnderstanding Why Author:Pierre Bourdieu
“Art is often born from inner struggle. Artists are plagued by impulses they must express. Contentment does not seek action but struggle always seeks release, and for the creative it can take the form of art.” DoeArtActionFormArtistBornStruggleCreativeArt IsReleaseImpulseContentmentInner Struggle Author:Eric Gibbons
“All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.” WayArtLiteratureStruggleParticularArt IsVirtuous Author:Iris Murdoch
“A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.” ArtCultureStruggleArt IsWorks Of ArtMagnificent Author:Grace Hartigan