Struggling Artist Quotes

I can live in L.A. as a struggling artist. I cannot live in New York as a struggling artist. ~ Gina Rodriguez

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

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

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

I love being a struggling artist; it makes me feel very alive. ~ Jonathan Evison

I know some people are like "I'm depressed and I'm a struggling artist" and that really works for some people, but that doesn't work for me. I have to be really happy, even when I'm writing my depressing songs; I have to come through that stage before I can write. I have to be in a good place. I'm a positive person. ~ Charli XCX

There are things the artist intends, and things the viewer sees, and what the viewer sees isn't always what the artist intends. Isn't always apparent upon first viewing. ~ Julie Anne Long

The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2. ~ Kelly Jones

It's important for all people, and not just people in bands, to speak out on social justice issues. That means journalists or plumbers have just as much of a responsibility to do that as artists. ~ Serj Tankian

My priciple is, the artist shall put forth, humbly & lovingly, without bitterness, the very best & highest that is within him,utterly regardless of contemporary criticism. ~ Sidney Lanier

In 2010, when the Lotus Sutra was made available to me by a private dealer, I was very fortunate to be able to have it. It is very long, 30 feet or something crazy like that. It has some 15,000 very small standard script characters that the artist Zhao Mengfu in the Yuan dynasty made when he was in his 60s. ~ Jerry Yang

I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture. The stylings of my words are immodest, but it's the truth. ~ Julio Iglesias

An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can. ~ Jacques Barzun

We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods. ~ James Elkins

Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art. ~ Clement Greenberg

With the single exception of Park Lane, every north-south route in London slows traffic to the pace of a wounded gnat with pleurisy struggling with a squaddie's backpack. ~ Michael Gove

Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist ~ David Bowie

To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [ ... ] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to write [ ... ] so that people understand, sympathize, see the universality of pain, and feel strengthened, if not directly encouraged to live on.
If there is good to be said, the writer should say it. If there is bad to be said, he should say it in a way that reflects the truth that, though we see the evil, we choose to continue among the living.
The true artist [ ... ] gets his sense of worth and honor from his conviction that art is powerful
~ John Gardner

It was always a dream as I was growing up. I would watch movies, mostly American movies, and be so engrossed in those stories, all I wanted to do was be there. I wanted to be part of that romance or that fantasy or be that warrior or that struggling soul who finally makes it good. ~ Gerard Butler

It's important for an artist to realize his own style. Copying or letting yourself be influenced by another's work is good for a start, just don't let yourself get stuck with it. Try to evolve and develop your own. Broadening your knowledge in other mediums is important in acquiring inspiration. ~ Arnold Arre

The separation of employments, the division of labor, which results from the faculty of exchanging, causes each man, instead of struggling on his own account to overcome all the obstacles that surround him, to combat only one of them; he overcomes that one not for himself but for his fellow men, who in turn render him the same service. ~ Frederic Bastiat

The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic 'right-brain' thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't. ~ Daniel H. Pink

Santi was a behemoth in the art world, and being known solely by one's first name was a level of fame achieved only by an elite few... people like Napoleon, Galileo, and Jesus... and, of course, the demigods Langdon now heard blaring from Harvard dormitories - Sting, Madonna, Jewel, and the artist formerly known as Prince, who had changed his name to the symbol ?, causing Langdon to dub him 'The Tau Cross With Intersecting Hermaphroditic Ankh. ~ Dan Brown

as an artist, i do not always enjoy the questions, 'what were you thinking when you wrote this. what was the inspiration behind this.' these questions imply that there is always thought involved in creation. for me it is the exact opposite. creativity is the act of experiencing the unconscious in the conscious. sometimes, i want to say, without sarcasm, 'i do not know what my soul was thinking when i wrote that poem, i was too busy listening. ~ Nayyirah Waheed

I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist. ~ Ray Conniff

The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he takes instantly what it takes the ordinary man a lifetime to know, and then the great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

I never wanted to be that fad type of artist. When I looked up to artists, watching TV, I wanted to see somebody. I wanted to touch that person. I wanted to sound like them. I wanted to move like them. That' s what I want my fans to do. So that's why, everything that I do, the music I make, how I dress, it's all based off my lifestyle. ~ Tyga

To me, as a visual artist, I don't want to get into the theory of Buddhism. There are many Buddhism theories and they fight each other, like Christians as well. ~ Hiroshi Sugimoto

I'm just an insomniac struggling for a night where I don't dream of you anymore. ~ Lone Alaskan Gypsy

The craftsman and the artist say, "Here, I made this." The workingman is asked to follow instructions. ~ Seth Godin

I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

All my works are games, serious game. ~ M.C. Escher

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. ~ Melanie Martinez

I identify as being an independent artist. I think people often forget that Indie is actually short for independent. For me, the word has a meaning more than what it connotes from an industry standpoint. ~ Mirah

Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments. ~ Antonio Gaudi

I feel that this is my artistic home, and I'm very happy to be a California artist together with many others who are not from here originally but who decided to make this the center of their activities. There's something about that that I find very inspiring and satisfying. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist. ~ John Fowles

A sailor is distinguished by the number of storms he has overcome.
A warrior is distinguished by the number of opponents he has conquered.
A doctor is distinguished by the number of patients he has healed.
A preacher is distinguished by the number of sermons he has delivered.
A ruler is distinguished by the number of lives he has improved.
A celebrity is distinguished by the number of hearts he has impressed.
A policeman is distinguished by the number of criminals he has arrested.
A teacher is distinguished by the number of students he has graduated.
An athlete is distinguished by the number of competitions he has won.
An author is distinguished by the number of books he has penned.
An artist is distinguished by the number of portraits he has painted.
An architect is distinguished by the number of buildings he has designed.
A sculptor is distinguished by the number of statues he has fashioned.
A musician is distinguished by the number of songs he has composed.
A lawyer is distinguished by the number of cases he was won.
A scientist is distinguished by the number of discoveries he has made.
A priest is distinguished by the number of souls he has saved.
A guru is distinguished by the number of schools he has established. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

I'm not someone who's an immigrant who's struggling in that way, but between New York and L.A., I had someone tell me very early on, "If you're going to be broke anywhere, it's better to be broke in L.A. At least the weather is nice." I was like, "You're right." I didn't take them up on that. ~ Greta Gerwig

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality. ~ D.H. Lawrence

There were no sparks, just a gasoline fire burning through the dark ~ Sukh Dev

They shaved my head, eyebrows. This is not a sci-fi picture. It's not a fantasy picture. You're dealing with something that's supposed to be in reality. But we had a genius makeup artist. ~ Rick Yune

Our old experiences, memories and fears guide us down the present path. It's not so much that you are the artist; you are the conduit. ~ Nick Bantock

I feel my hand. I am these two beasts struggling at the end of my arms. My hand scratches one of its paws with the nail of the other paw; I feel its weight on the table which is not me. It's long, long, this impression of weight, it doesn't pass. There is no reason for it to pass. It becomes intolerable
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I draw back my hand and put it in my pocket; but immediately I feel the warmth of my thigh through the stuff. I pull my hand out of my pocket and let it hang against the back of the chair. Now I feel a weight at the end of my arm. It pulls a little, softly, insinuatingly it exists. I don't insist: no matter where I put it it will go on existing; I can't suppress it, nor can I suppress the rest of my body, the sweaty warmth, which soils my shirt, nor all this warm obesity which turns lazily, as if someone were stirring it with a spoon, nor all the sensations going on inside, going, coming, mounting from my side to my armpit or quietly vegetating from morning to night, in their usual corner. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

The artist by his work is known. ~ Francoise-Marguerite De Sevigne

Artists who believe they control everything control what they know. Artists who allow outside forces to intervene are like canoes going down rapids. The rocks are there. If you fight them, you fly off the bow. If you allow the current to take you, you can pass through swimmingly. It is a rare gift at every bend. ~ Arno Hintjens

Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist. ~ Rene Angelil

True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world. ~ Oskar Kokoschka

Being an artist is a job for life. ~ Brian Eno

And Clifford the same. All that talk! All that writing! All that wild struggling to push himself forwards! It was just insanity. And it was getting worse, really maniacal.
Connie felt washed-out with fear. But at least, Clifford was shifting his grip from her on to Mrs Bolton. He did not know it. Like many insane people, his insanity might be measured by the things he was not aware of, the great desert tracts in his consciousness. ~ D.H. Lawrence

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed. ~ John Galsworthy

When we put his kippah into the museum, everyone was talking about how much money it was worth and the embroidery by some famous artist and how it was a national relic, and all this -- but I was just thinking of Shabbat, and seders, and -- and it didn't mean any of those things to me. It meant lighting candles. It meant he'd hid the afikomen in the palace for me and joking with his advisors as he waited around for me to find it so he could give me a new book. National treasure? I--' She blinked away new tears, but this time the look on her face was one of indignation. ~ Shira Glassman

When the artist observes nature ... it is as if nature communicated, through the sensitivity of the artist at that moment, one of its secrets. ~ Bruno Munari