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“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.”

Knows Artist Struggle Hardest Vacation Hardest Thing Time Off

Author:Karen O

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

Needs Artist Struggle Honest Solo

Author:Aubrey O'Day

“Perhaps art can help us to look beyond the immediate beauty with all its puzzles, and to glimpse that new creation which makes sense not only of beauty but of the world as a whole, and ourselves within it ... The artist can then join forces with those who work for justice and those who struggle for redemptive relationships, and together encourage and sustain those who are reaching out for a genuine, redemptive spirituality.”

World Looks Art Whole Helping Together Artist Spirituality Force Justice Struggle Seeing Creation Genuine Invisible Make Sense Visible Reaching Reach Out Puzzles Glimpse

Author:N. T. Wright

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

Men Humans Mother Artist Struggle Treacherous Remorseless

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“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.”

Kind Artist Strong Challenges Struggle Holy Transformation Entrepreneur Wings Butterfly Inventor Newborn Life Struggle

Book:This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love

Source: This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love

“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.”

Art Artist Song Struggle Higher Concern Difficulty Locals Temporary Disturbance

Book:Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985

Source: Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985

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

Artist Struggle Privilege Buried Gorgeous

Author:Hiroko Sakai

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

Made Artist Struggle Glad

Author:Jessie J

“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.”

Should Years Young Artist Company Struggle Color Colour Deprivation Young Artists

Author:El Greco

“The artivist (artist +activist) uses her artistic talents to fight and struggle against injustice and oppression – by any medium necessary. The artivist merges commitment to freedom and justice with the pen, the lens, the brush, the voice, the body, and the imagination. The artivist knows that to make an observation is to have an obligation.”

“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.”

Men Artist Struggle Fields Battle Essentials Ordinary Ordinary Man

Author:Andre Malraux

“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.”