Love songs are the most complex to write because everyone knows about it.
Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
I'd never thought of horror as being so challenging, but it is.
You can't improv off of bad writing. Then you have to actually create your objective, which is really hard to do in an element without the skeleton to go off of.
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.
I think being creative is incredibly difficult and painful.
I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.
Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.
Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.
It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.
I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad.
Anyone who says it's so easy to write a country hit and that it's just a formula - well, try it sometime. If it was that easy, everybody would be doing it.
Nobody can write a good 30-second commercial.
As to the 'St. Michael,' the subject is very fine, but very difficult, so I doubt that I shall find easily amongst my pupils one capable of carrying it out satisfactorily even after my own drawing. In any case, it will be necessary for me to touch it up carefully with my own hand.
So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future.
A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they really were
Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.
Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.
It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
Comedy is much harder, it's a lot more exacting. You can't just be real and you can't just use the same kind of techniques you use to fill up a regular scene.
Often people poopoo melody as if it's a cheap trick to make people like things, but in my experience it's the hardest part of the tune, to find something that doesn't immediately remind you of something that's happened before.
It's always been difficult to make a good record.
So writing stories is not easier in comparison to the playwriting or translation; the stories are easier in league with them.
