“As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.”

— Brian Eno

October 25, 1995, p. 233
A Year With Swollen Appendices (1996)

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English musician, composer, record producer and visual arti… 1948

Charles de Lint (1951) author

"Baiting the Hook", p. 42
Memory and Dream (1994)

“Human beings — they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it?”

Yukio Mishima Ken

"Sword" ("Ken"), quoted in 三島由紀夫短編集: Seven Stories, translated by John Bester (2002), p. 67.

“At the age of ten, twenty, a hundred, very young, a little older, and very old, an artist is always an artist. Isn't he better at some times, some moments, than at others? Never impeccable, since he is a living, human being?”

Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) French Post-Impressionist artist

Source: 1890s - 1910s, The Writings of a Savage (1996), p. 219: quote from 1903

“Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.”

Ai Weiwei (1957) Chinese concept artist

2000-09, Ai Weiwei, Nursing Head Wound, Sharpens Criticism, 2009

“Being in control isn't forceful manipulation but rather highly cooperative engagement w/ what's really going on.”

David Allen (1945) American productivity consultant and author

4 August 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/20314349285
Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“It is not the favourable conditions, but most deprived circumstances that mould an artist”
- about the struggles that he had undergone in his life as an artist.”

Mani Madhava Chakyar (1899–1990) Indian actor

Source: p. 47 Natyacharya Mani Madhava Chakyar, Attendance - The Dance Annual of India 2009 http://www.attendance-india.com/#2009

“A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.”

Orson Welles (1915–1985) American actor, director, writer and producer

“To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gift -absolute gifts- which have not been acquired by one's effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist must possess the courageous soul.”

Kate Chopin book The Awakening

Source: The Awakening

“It seems pointless to be quoted if one isn't going to be quotable … it's better to be quotable than honest.”

Tom Stoppard (1937) British playwright

Interview http://books.google.com/books?id=PubwLmgAcd0C&q="It+seems+pointless+to+be+quoted+if+one+isn't+going+to+be+quotable"+"it's+better+to+be+quotable+than+honest"&pg=PA49#v=onepage with Janet Watts that appeared in The Guardian newspaper 21 March 1973.

“Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world; and this is not a woman's province in a married state.”

Mary Wollstonecraft book Thoughts on the Education of Daughters

Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787), "Matrimony", p. 100
Context: Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world; and this is not a woman's province in a married state. Her sphere of action is not large, and if she is not taught to look into her own heart, how trivial are her occupations and pursuits! What little arts engross and narrow her mind!

“As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.”

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