Adversity Quote by Donald Barthelme

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

Art is difficult.

— Scott Thompson

Sometimes, trying to make a work of art can be very difficult and very painful.

— Mandy Patinkin

It's not so much that art is difficult to make; it's that the structures and the kind of prejudices that the art world constructs…

— Fab Moretti

Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult…

— Anselm Kiefer

Art is difficult. It's not always going to please everyone; it's not always going to work the way you want it to work.

— Michael Giacchino

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

— Geoffrey Hill

For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.

— Joyce Cary

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

Art should not be an easy thing.

— Fred Armisen

Art is beautiful but it is hard, like a religion without a purpose.

— Gunter Brus

Art is difficult. It's not entertainment.

— Anselm Kiefer