Art Quote by Charles Bukowski

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

— Charles Bukowski

Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, rather because it wishes to be art. However much the writer might long to…

— Donald Barthelme

People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call…

— Michelle Shocked

The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we…

— John Cassavetes

Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, but because it wishes to be art.

— Donald Barthelme

Art is difficult.

— Scott Thompson

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

— Willa Cather

Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

There are many ways of understanding simple things, but generally the opposite is true for difficult ideas

— Miyamoto Musashi

Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that the public…

— John Ralston Saul

When I was in school, they say everybody can do art. And I was, like, a little bit obstinate - not an anarchist, but…

— Peter Stormare

One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy.

— Eugene Delacroix