Art Quote by Jerry Uelsmann

There's a kind of despair about whether art can really do anything, but you have to incorporate that despair into the way you work.…

— Tony Harrison

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

— Mandy Patinkin

Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art.

— Eric Gibbons

There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.

— Julia Cameron

Art is challenging and frustrating but I don't linger in it. I work on five paintings at a time so if I'm frustrated I…

— Robert Bateman

I think making any art requires a certain degree of high anxiety and total abandon.

— David Crabb

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

— Donald Barthelme

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

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

— Joyce Cary

I cannot see that art is anything less than a way of making joys perpetual.

— Rebecca West

There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making.

— John Currin

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

— Oscar Wilde