Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don't buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.
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You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff.
To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.
Hardship makes the world obscure.
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.
I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.
Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brain's cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age.
Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.