Adversity Quote by Alejandro Jodorowsky

To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.

— William Boyd

An artist has got to be constantly in a state of becoming.

— Bob Dylan

Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

— Fernando Botero

Being creative and emotional, artistes sometimes go through difficult phases in life, but one has to look at life as a bigger canvas. It's…

— Saswata Chatterjee

“Our first job as artists, then, is to venture out, away from what we think we know in search of the new and unexplored.…

— Jeff Goins

Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If the creative process is so powerful, it would be natural to wonder why many artists have difficulties in their lives. It is because…

— Robert Fritz

One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you…

— Catherine Opie

All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.

— Rollo May

“There are no guarantees that if you work hard enough, or are talented enough, that you will be successful, be able to support yourself,…

— Jessica Todd Harper

Purely by hard work, one can become an artist.

— Robert Fripp

“Thanks for your encouraging words. But I know the grim realities of being an artist. Most of us would never make a mark in…

— Abhaidev