Starving Artist Quotes

Over the last forty years, many educators, decision-makers, and even some parents have come to regard the arts as peripheral, and let’s face it, frivolous—especially the visual arts, with their connotation of ”the starving artist” and the mistaken concept of necessary talent

The privilege of struggling artists is ... the life being buried in what we can't really afford of* what a gorgeous life!!

I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one with the good brain and great career.

She would have thought that working and living in continuous happiness, harmony, and security day after day would lead to mental lethargy, that her writing would suffer from too much happiness, that she needed a balanced life with down days and miseries to keep the sharp edge on her work. But the idea that an artist needed to suffer to do her best work was a conceit of the young and inexperienced. The happier she grew, the better she wrote.

Sometimes the gap between what you are and what you want to be is a little piece of paper called your college degree. So jump.

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From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.