26
03
2008
Artists are most successful when ruminating on failure
Posted by: admin in Erica Jong, Gerhard Richter, Artist quote, Artists are their own worst enemies, Doomed artist, Artistic failure in America“There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul.”
–Erica Jong
“Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else…”
–Eric Maisel
“Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness.”
–Gerhard Richter
“Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn nuisance.”
–Neil Welliver
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