Scott Thompson Quotes

Songwriting's never been a natural art for me; it's always been a bit of a struggle.

I want painting to be difficult to do.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

But life is tough and if you're creative, it's tougher.

It's hard to be an artist. It's hard to be anything. It's hard to be.

How hard, how desperately hard, is the way of the experimenter in art!

I want a painting to be difficult to do. The more obstacles, obstructions, problems - if they don't overwhelm - the better. I would like to feel that I am involved at any stage of the painting with all its moments, not just this 'now' moment where a superficial grace is so available.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice.

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

I love making films more than anything, but it's tough.

Creating things sometimes is difficult.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

In the early days, it was, you know, I used to weep while I was writing. I used to grab at any kind of anything, any hint, any tip of how to make it easy.

My songwriting process is painful. Songwriting is brilliant. It's a load of fun - when it works. It's really difficult as well.

Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?

Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy.

I'm inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye.

There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

Repeating is harder than anything else.

Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.

I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.

Making television is difficult. Making any art is difficult.

To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.