Struggling Artist Quotes

“I believe...that to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure more than an artistic success. Shakespeare would have done well in any generation because he would have refused to die in a corner; he would have taken the false gods and made them over; he would have taken the current formulae and forced them into something lesser men thought them incapable of. Alive today he would undoubtedly have written and directed motion pictures, plays, and God knows what. Instead of saying, "This medium is not good," he would have used it and made it good. If some people called some his work cheap (which some of it was), he wouldn't have cared a rap, because he would know that without some vulgarity there is no complete man. He would have hated refinement, as such, because it is always a withdrawal, and he was too tough to shrink from anything.”
― Raymond Chandler, Raymond Chandler Speaking

“During your struggle society is not a bunch of flowers, it is a bunch of cactus.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“The gift of life, gives you the greatest opportunity to live and chance to rise above any situation. With hopeful attitude you can overcome any struggle.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account...”
― Hiroko Sakai

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

“Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Two souls battered by oceans and scorched by time had landed here. A poet and a singer. On the deck, with a typewriter and a guitar, they began the journey of finding their voice.”
― Yarro Rai, Beyond Passion and Dreams: Two Souls. One Fire. No Survivors.