Art Quote by Donald Barthelme

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 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

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

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

— Iris Murdoch

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

— Geoffrey Hill

Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

“Nothing could be less conducive to reaching an art-work than critical remarks:it's always simply a matter of more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Everything cannot…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

— Iris Murdoch

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

— Mandy Patinkin

whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated and as…

— Rebecca West