Artistic Struggles Quotes

Definitely, it's hard being a young artist and being taken seriously.

I don't mean that creative people are somehow finer, or more sensitive, and thus have finer, more sensitive nervous breakdowns - you can save that horseshit for the Sylvia Plath worshipers. It's just that creative people have creative breakdowns.

Taking legal action against pirates is a headache for artists like me.

It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them.

My artist career failed pretty miserably multiple times.

You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.

I grew up very comfortable in this bizarre, circus-like existence, but, as comfortable as I was, I was also aware of the struggles that actors go through.

I have a specific set of, I have a specific sort of negative energies to deal with that might be specific to me, but it definitely something that all artists have to deal with at one point or another. But I think for me, it's just maybe more specific.

I think people don't realize how little of being an artist is making art.

I'm not good at fantasy, no. I have been offered stuff, and I can't get my head around it.

I had a tough time 12 years ago getting 'Driving Miss Daisy' off the ground. Today, it would be impossible.

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

I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity.

It's a curse. I ask God to take this away from me all the time. I do not like being an artist.

But theatre is always a difficult experience.

I don't think anyone ever sets out to make a crappy movie, but there are a lot of forces working against those people who are trying to make something decent. There are a lot of fine lines to walk and small battles to fight.

Honestly, I really can't speak on others, but in a sense, I feel like every artist always has their problems with the industry because we all want to have our creative way.

It's not easy, acting.

I had to deal with being somewhat of an outcast because it's not socially acceptable to be a struggling musician. There have been times where I've felt sorry for the person I was dating. I felt she deserved better.

I've had to accept that - that everyone cannot love me. Because when there's love, there's hate. When there's light, there's dark. But it was really hard to accept as an artist that there's a lot of people that hate me, but on the other side, there are many more people who love me. I think everyone goes through that.

When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.

In Hollywood, you still have wonderful actors, but it's so hard to work there. To work becomes a Kafka nightmare - it's the last communist country!

Who'd want to be a modernist writer in the English-speaking world?

I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.

I think what we should concentrate on is what it feels like to be a working artist in the day to day. One doesn't imagine what comes down the line.