I firmly believe artists should be paid for what they create.
What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat in such a way that it may afterward appear, however much it was laboured upon, to have been done almost quickly and almost without any labour, and very easily, although it was not.
People err who think my art comes easily to me. I assure you, dear friend, nobody has devoted so much time and thought to compositions as I. There is not a famous master whose music I have not industriously studied through many times.
If I feel the labor and the gruesome process, that helps me appreciate the art.
Don't think of it as art, think of it as work.
The most labor-intensive part of putting together a comic is the drawing.
A live action movie is work, and an animated movie is you showing up in your pajamas once every three months, or in my case, just a splash of baby powder. It's not any kind of heavy lifting.
Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.
You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself.
I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.
If you're a writer, you're always working.
Artists deserve to make a living
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.
Making records is hard work.
Art-making is just another part of the consciousness industry.
writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.
Writing a book is like torture that you don't know, but after it's done and there it is. It's a joy like unlike anything else, I think it's the closest that a man can come to knowing what is feels like to have a baby.
A novel may take anywhere from two to five years to write and, in the end, you might manage a couple of thousand dollars on it, no more.
I've never gotten money from most of those records. And I made those records: In the studio, they'd just give me a bunch of words, I'd make up a song! The rhythm and everything. 'Good Golly Miss Molly'! And I didn't get a dime for it.
I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.
I think that very often younger writers don't appreciate how much hard work is involved in writing. The part of writing that's magic is the thinnest rind on the world of creation. Most of a writer's life is just work. It happens to be a kind of work that the writer finds fulfilling in the same way that a watchmaker can happily spend countless hours fiddling over the tiny cogs and bits of wire. ... I think the people who end up being writers are people who don't get bored doing that kind of tight focus in small areas.
The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them.
Industry in art is a necessity - not a virtue - and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a quality; a proof, not of achievement, but of absolutely insufficient work, for work alone will efface the footsteps of work.
The actual producing, mixing, and mastering is hard work, harder than what I do.
