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Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.

— Damien Hirst

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Creating art is painful. It takes time, practice, and the courage to stand alone.

— Maria Semple

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

— Brian Eno

Art is the ultimate luxury good, but one that can make you think, give a you a blast of beauty and enhance your life. Even if the work's made of plasticine.

— Ben Elliot

The best thing about art is that it is the one luxury in life that can be enjoyed by everyone. And it lasts forever.

— Lynda Resnick

A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.

— Bill Viola

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

— Nile Rodgers

What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing, and so art-making is endless.

— Jane Hirshfield

Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.

— Mark Vonnegut

It's been fun. I've had a lucky life. Art has made me pull the best out of myself.

— LeRoy Neiman

✗Opposing Perspectives

I don't feel I'm trying to make art. I'm trying to make interesting things. People can relate to that.

— Thomas Heatherwick