Starving Artist Quotes

“Over the last forty years, many educators, decision-makers, and even some parents have come to regard the arts as peripheral, and let’s face it, frivolous—especially the visual arts, with their connotation of ”the starving artist” and the mistaken concept of necessary talent”
― Betty Edwards, The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

“From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.”
― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

“She would have thought that working and living in continuous happiness, harmony, and security day after day would lead to mental lethargy, that her writing would suffer from too much happiness, that she needed a balanced life with down days and miseries to keep the sharp edge on her work. But the idea that an artist needed to suffer to do her best work was a conceit of the young and inexperienced. The happier she grew, the better she wrote.”
― Dean Koontz, Lightning

“ I was born, slipping on a symphony of broken melancholy; created of pencils and crayons; i was not supposed to be this way. i guess i am a "disappointment". i paint and draw. i like to write poetry. The things I excel at could fit inside my shoe." Excerpt from the poem,"Pain"written in 1995, by E.H. Cato(my maiden name) featured in Volume 2 of the Rantings & Ravings Series, 2013.”
― Emily Sturgill

“The privilege of struggling artists is ... the life being buried in what we can't really afford of* what a gorgeous life!!”
― Hiroko Sakai

“I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one with the good brain and great career.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“An empty stomach will teach you lessons a full stomach can’t.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Sometimes the gap between what you are and what you want to be is a little piece of paper called your college degree. So jump.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“ART (in a business marketing context)

Authority
Relevant
Timely”
― Richie Norton

“I think I’ll be happier writing with no money than not writing with a lot of money.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, He loved me some days. I'm sure he did: 99 essays on growth through loss

“Writers do like money; artists, contrary to popular belief, do like to eat. It’s only that money isn’t the driving force. I feel very rich when I have time to write and very poor when I get a regular paycheck and no time to work at my real work. Think of it. Employers pay salaries for time. That is the basic commodity that human beings have that is valuable. We exchange our time in life for money. Writers stay with the first step—their time—and feel it is valuable even before they get money for it. They hold on to it and aren’t so eager to sell it.”
― Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones, Freeing the Writer Within