Artistic Difficulty Quotes

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

It's hard to write a song about reality because reality doesn't rhyme.

I think in a way the great irony or paradox about America is that it makes it so hard for the sensitive person, the artist, the impressionable person, the person whose raison d'etre is to incarnate the creative will, rather than to just make money, and yet that extreme difficulty that the culture poses for us has created some of the best artists in the last hundred years.

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.

I think being creative is incredibly difficult and painful.

I realized probably when I was, like, 20 years old that the hardest thing to do is to write a pop song - not, like, a candy-pop, throwaway pop song.

Being able to say something lyrically, to say something that will do more than just be words, is really hard. It's easy to do when you're writing a chapter of a book or writing poetry, but it's really hard to do when you're confined to a melody line.

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

I will give a proof to demonstrate with facts that there are no rules in painting and that oppression or servile obligation of making all study or follow the same path is a great impediment for the young who profess this very difficult art.

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

The construction of the human figure, its tremendous variety of balance, of size, of rhythm, all those things make the human form much more difficult to get right in a drawing than anything else.

Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can readily be mastered by anyonwith a few simple instructions. It is difficult because, while while the artist working in any other medium begins with a blank surface and gradually brings his conception into being, the photographer is the only imagemaker who begins with the picture completed. His emotions, his knowledge, and his native talent are brought into focus and fixed beyond recall the moment the shutter of his camera has closed.

It's so easy to write songs about misery and hard times and sadness. It's much more difficult to write songs about happy and chirpy stuff.

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.

My God, how can anyone ever be a master of music?

Besides, Weebles are too hard to draw - they just end up looking like eggs, not people.

If you are someone like Jeff Koons, and you have to work out how to make a big chrome heart or something, then there are lots of people and a big production involved. The money is more natural somehow. For me, I am just on my own in the studio, trying to make things work. One thing is sure: it doesn't make painting any easier.

For some producers who are technical-minded, making the song sound good is easy, and getting the emotion into the song is harder.

Years ago, it was easier to make new things than it is now. The weight of experience weighs heavily, and the expectations; everybody wants to see something they haven't seen before. Now, with social media, with too much information, with the speed of information - all that is making it harder and harder to realize the objective.

Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one.

Finishing a painting demands a heart of steel: everything requires a decision, and I find difficulties where I least expect them... It is at such moments that one fully realizes one's own weaknesses.

My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.

Comedy is not easy to begin with, but comedy that also dances with drama - it's so hard.

If a writer is good at what he does, it's not easy to do a good job every day... To invent something new is almost an impossible task.

Art is difficult. It's not always going to please everyone; it's not always going to work the way you want it to work.