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

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"Art is often born from inner struggle. Artists are often plagued by impulses they must express. Contentment does not seek action but struggle always seeks release."

- Eric Gibbons

Creativity

"If museums and galleries could only show what everyone liked, they would be empty."

- Eric Gibbons

Creativity

"To be an artist at twenty is to be twenty: to still be an artist at fifty is to be an artist."

- Eric Gibbons

Ambition

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"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

Adversity

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

Adversity

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Adversity

"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

Adversity

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

Adversity