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