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“In place of an intensive cooperation among artists, there is a battle for goods. Hatred, partisanship, cliques, jealousy, and intrigues are the natural consequences of an aimless, materialist art.”

Art Artist Natural Battle Consequence Hatred Jealousy Goods Cooperation Intrigue Partisanship Clique Natural Consequences

Book:Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular

Source: Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular

“Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.”

Artist Belief Battle Contrary Evolve Mediocrity Contrary To Popular Belief

Author:Robert Genn

“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

“Decent artists go through bad times but eventually they do get recognized. It's by no means a battle lost. Yet.”

Mean Artist Lost Battle Decent Bad Times

Author:Louis Auchincloss

“The competitive nature of hip-hop culture has always had battling involved with it. So you battle with the other artist but not necessarily in business and everywhere else.”

Artist Culture Involved Battle Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:Curtis Jackson

“If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.”

Ifs Artist Half Battle Chemistry

Author:Ariel Rechtshaid

“You can support trans-positive legislation, tranny artists, and the inclusion of trannies in your neighborhood, schools, place of worship, whatever. For the long term? Join or initiate some good legal battles against the puritanical laws that exist around sex and gender.”

Long School Law Artist Sex Term Support Battle Worship Gender Long Term Neighborhood Inclusion Legislation Trans Initiate Places Of Worship Sex And Gender

Author:Kate Bornstein

“I think a lot of artists go waving their Grammies around thanking God for their Grammy, but when it comes to a pitch battle in the street for the honor of God, none of them is anywhere to be found.”

Thinking Artist Found Streets Honor Battle Thank God Grammy

Author:Sinead O'Connor

“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.”

Artist Break Struggle Battle Harder Constant Everyday Ridiculous Like Me Constant Struggle

Author:Syleena Johnson

“The artist has to transcend a subject, or he loses the battle. The subject wins.”

Artist Winning Loses Subjects Battle

Author:Fritz Scholder

“It's very hard to be an artist, on my first album, and I'm like asking for money for a music video for every song - it's so hard to do. You have to pick your battles for sure, but I definitely want - and I've always worked to make it all connect - for all of it to feel cohesive.”

Want Feels Firsts Hard Artist Song Battle Picks Asking Albums Video Asking For Money

Author:Melanie Martinez

“Even though hip-hop started as a battle format, different artists appeared on each other's records or hung out in the same clubs, supporting each other. That was a profound influence. Also, hip-hop, to me, represents limitless possibility. Hip-hop is always evolving. People say, "Oh, it's a very commercial thing, it's too R&B." But in six months, a record is gonna come out that will completely change that.”

People Different Artist Influence Possibility Battle Profound Evolve Hung Limitless

Author:Mike D

“Wolfe was drinking beer and looking at pictures of snowflakes in a book someone had sent him from Czechoslovakia... ...Wolfe seemed absorbed in the pictures. Looking at him, I said to myself, "He's in a battle with the elements. He's fighting his way through a raging blizzard, just sitting there comfortably looking at pictures of snowflakes. That's the advantage of being an artist, of having imagination." I said aloud, "You mustn't go to sleep, sir, it's fatal. You freeze to death." The League of Frightened Men”

“Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.”

Artist Fear Battle Warrior Code Live By Going Away Face Your Fears

Book:The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles