"But most importantly, both of these films tell the tale of an artist seeking greatness who must first endure suffering and sacrifice."
"This is the story of the terror that comes from the fear of being lost to time and of the unrelenting perseverance of the artist. But above all else, this is a story of failure and the strength that comes from it."
"Sometimes art's hard, especially when it's something you care about."
"A young struggling artist who doesn't realize they have any talent."
"Artists who are authentic and who don't sugarcoat or sanitize some of the struggles that we go through."
"Hands are one of the most annoying things to draw."
"A blank canvas is a horrible thing, and a half-finished painting is worse."
"Artists and sometimes non-artists alike can understand the concept of suffering for the sake of your own art."
"Everyone goes through a process for making their work and everyone struggles."
"Art is mostly a mental battle in my opinion."
"One of the harshest truths you will learn as an artist is that oftentimes very talented people are never recognized for their work their entire career can pass them by."
"The Christians struggle to imagine their God was one of the most exciting struggles in art."
"An artist, struggling to reconcile the reality he wanted to represent with the limitations of his own ability and the system he was working within."
"Writing is painful when you're a really good writer."
"For every Raphael, there are many Raphaels without hands."
"Creativity becoming a chore is like the worst death of creativity."
"The pursuit of any creative endeavor is a war that you have to fight to finale."
"I had never felt so defeated as an artist and so humiliated as a person."
"Every artist got to where they are because of their obstacles, not their conveniences."
"Creativity and suffering are somehow inherently linked, and that artistry, in the end, will always ultimately lead to anguish."
"Because then you have artists who are genuinely talented people, they exist, who are sitting in their bedroom right now wondering why not me."
"Comedy has a huge chitlin circuit... people work their ass off, grind for free, don't get paid anything to do the work."
"Behind the shades of lead singer and principal songwriter of Steppenwolf, is an artist who struggled against numerous obstacles."
"It's when you are kind of struggling with a scene or a moment or a line and it's just not feeling right, and then you get it."
"Every artist's going to go through this. You're going to have to remind yourself that you're dope or you're capable of things."
"No matter what medium you work with or what your stick is, one thing's for sure: if you let life, the usual life stuff, consume you, something suffers creatively."
"Art is a very frustrating process."
"I've been in what you might call something of a creative rut."
"Ray later amplified the reason that he was so defiant, stating that as an artist he was floundering, trying to find an identity in the brutally difficult music business."
"Instead of curating a perfect artist's life where I'm just living the dream, I want to be transparent and open about the struggles of an art business."
"The struggle of working at your craft, the struggle at trying to live a creative life."
"Every single artist you talk to will have gone through whatever you're going through."
"The great tragedy of an artist’s life is knowing that you will not be able to do half of the projects or more that you want to do."
"Have you ever found yourself in just a complete creative rut, desperately seeking for that spark of inspiration?"
"It's about the nature of self-destruction, learning to overcome artistic anxiety, the need to build community, what it means to create."
"Ask any artist and they will probably have a handful of examples of times that they struggled making art."
"Doing this stuff is not easy, we struggled, like, you know, I'm not gonna sit here and front like, you know, I'm a rich artist."
"It's increasingly harder to support ourselves in this endeavor, but the fact that you know from the moment you wake up, there's music everywhere."
"Every artist, we're all going through the same stuff; we're all crashing and having trouble with things and going back and forth a million times with different ideas."
"I work hard for my music. I've struggled for eight years and I feel like some of it sounds really good."
"Struggle is good, especially for artists, because you got something to really talk about."
"As a black female artist, every time I go in a room with a script, it feels like I'm hustling for my worth."