It would be difficult to do art without music (music…

What's New Orleans without music? And what's music without dancing?

— Ellen DeGeneres

Music is everything to me. Without music, I wouldnt be here in America now, and I would have been a completely different person. It…

— Yuya Matsushita

It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.

— Iris Murdoch

the difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole of experience…

— Mary Stewart

I think that music is a very difficult art form in which to be avant-garde. When we sit down to listen to a piece…

— Steven Soderbergh

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record…

— William Osler

Intimacy is a difficult art.

— Virginia Woolf

I think art has a right — not an obligation — to be difficult if it wishes. And, since people generally go on from…

— Geoffrey Hill

War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

There exists no more difficult art than living.

— Seneca the Younger

To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art.

— Asger Jorn

“Stalking is a very difficult art to come to terms with, for in reality, you can’t apply yourself to it. This art inevitably has…

— Lujan Matus

A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.

— Robert Genn

A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt