Adversity Quote by Iris Murdoch Download Open image “All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.” — Iris Murdoch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adversity Art Particular Struggle Virtuous Way
A main part of the struggle of art has been to make an art that is direct, simple, humane, unconnected with powers that be… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form. — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the art. — Philip Schultz Copy Share Image
It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too. — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, but because it wishes to be art. — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Art is often born from inner struggle. Artists are plagued by impulses they must express. Contentment does not seek action but struggle always seeks… — Eric Gibbons Copy Share Image
Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life. — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.” — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Oh if only I could take my mother away and never know of these things again. But it was impossible, the machine would go… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
We love playing together and we love adversity. You know, back-to-back, the two best teams in the East. — Steve Nash Copy Share Image
“The threats that resurfaced in the past 10 years were not an aberration. Al Qaeda and terrorism or one such threat, but it was… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Friction is necessary. Ease of life leads to complacency and the atrophy of the human will and spirit. Within our struggles lives our strength,… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
“Every adversity is just another opportunity to excel a little more.” — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
“Just because she doesn't talk about it, doesn't mean she isn't feeling it. She hurts, but she won't wear it on her sleeve. She… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. — James Buckham Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Struggles are not associated to a particular people or creed, everyone struggles, not for the same reasons, but each has a personal struggle at… — Wayne Chirisa Copy Share Image
God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
