Artistic Challenges Quotes

Every movie has its complexities and its challenges.

I'm sure with a production that's not particularly well received or mediocrely received, it must be incredibly challenging to get up and keep doing it.

You're always taught that the world is so competitive. You're taught that it's not very likely for you to become successful and that odds are you're going to be a struggling artist for the rest of your life.

I think it's just an awkward time right now to be a musician.

There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.

Artists, in theory, should not be limited to their personal experience, culture, identity, and worldview. But they must also accept that the degree of difficulty in imagining beyond their own borders is steep, and the failure rate is high.

Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.

If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.

I have no conceit as a writer; in fact, I find it very difficult to start writing about sculpture generally & my aims in particular.

There are days when either filmmaking feels like an insurmountable practice - here's a lot of obstacles in the way to make it happen - or you think, "What does this all add up to?" You don't know what to do with the footage, and you've asked a lot of people for their time and a lot of people to be patient with you. And then you lose faith that you can actually make a worthwhile story out of this.

The hardest things to do in any art is to risk failure and put yourself out on the line.

The world of the arts is by no means always comfortable, but neither is it likely ever to be boring. It is full of surprises, humor, traps for the unwary, and challenges to smugness. It is a world of moods as well as of revelation, of beliefs and fears, of unpleasant truth as well as of delicious fantasy. Perhaps it is arrogant to say that anyone who does not venture into this world is only half-interested in life. I say it, nonetheless.

Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on.

You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life

Working with the artist elite can be like banging your head against the wall.

My artist career failed pretty miserably multiple times.

I went to theater school in Toronto for four years and grew up around actors, and things like headshots could cost you from $500 to $1,000. That can be a big deal for a struggling artist.

I think, honestly, hard work is the only way that you'll get anywhere and this is not an easy job. People think it's easy to be a singer or to be an artist. It's crazy hours and you need a lot of energy and some spirit inside you to do that.

People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

Initially, when I got into the world of music, I was treated like an underdog.

I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing.

Nearly a half-century on from feminism, simply being a woman artist is still a revolutionary act. And getting one's work shown continues to be met by enormous inbuilt resistance.

All of the trials and tribulations from personal to the artist. It shows that I'm human. People see the glamorous stuff, but they don't see the background.

None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.