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I am often helplessly confronted by the picture... filled with suspense. What I have drawn suddenly seems to have developed its own dynamic - one that is not always necessarily kind to me. It is a genuine struggle and challenge. (Simone Bingemer)
Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges. (Julia Cameron)
I need challenges to stimulate me to that frenetic, slam-dunk workaholic frenzy that gets lots of stuff created efficiently and in quicktime. (Nic East)
Self esteem comes from being faced with a challenge, whatever it might be, and meeting it. (Linda Fields)
Each new painting presents a new challenge. Each new challenge is a goad to growth. (West Fraser)
The challenge to me is to take a traditional subject and use what is there to create an even more fascinating image – my personal statement. (Don Getz)
Each painting must present the challenge of problems not encountered before. (Katharina Kubrick-Hobbs)
The simplicity of form, the drama of rich, intense colour, the joy of challenge, and the challenge of endurance... The piece, when it is over, is not what is made, but how it is made. (Andrew Kuntz)
I'm thrilled to be thriving on art all through the daylight and the dark-of-night hours, only to go off and snatch too few hours of rest, dreaming of the art I want to challenge me tomorrow. (Dyan Law)
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
To search for the good and make it matter; this is the real challenge for the artist. (Estella Conwill Majozo)
The challenge of life is to get up, dust off, and keep going – for the love of the work, for the love of life and all the gifts we have been given. (Carolyn McDade)
Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best. (David O. McKay)
Challenge your perceptions, then visualize your options. (Verlie Murphy)
We grow primarily through our challenges,
especially those life-changing moments when we begin to recognize aspects of our nature that make us different from the family and culture in which we have been raised. (Caroline Myss)
The challenge, of course, is to move people to look at an image they've seen many times before – something as banal as someone taking off their shirt on the beach – and to have them realize they've never quite seen it that way. (Graham Nickson)
By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones. (Wes Nisker)
Yes we can! (Barack Obama)
Don't try to recreate something you've done before. Challenge yourself constantly. (Suzanne Partridge)
The challenge for the artist is to persevere whether or not recognition is forthcoming. (Alice Rich)
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk. (Anthony Robbins)
The challenge is often saying something poignant or precise with the least amount of distraction. (Linda Saccoccio)
To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist. (Gail Sheehy)
If I knew what the picture was going to be like I wouldn't make it. It was almost like it was made already... the challenge is more about trying to make what you can't think of. (Cindy Sherman)
If you can do it then why do it? (Gertrude Stein)
The major challenge is to take the magic and spontaneity of the outside atmospherics and inject them into the larger studio works... a daunting task. (John Stobart)
The great challenge and inspiration of art lies in its unpredictability. (Ken Strong)
I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift. (Twyla Tharp)
To bring about the celebration of some small piece of the world we live in or to take someone's experience to a new level of awareness - that is a challenge I gratefully accept. (Stewart Turcotte)
The how-to-succeed literature would have us forever looking for mountains to conquer. But the world's doers aren't interested in conquering a mountain – they want to be conquered by it, to fall in love with the adventure and the discovery. (Source unknown)
Dreams can often become challenging, but challenges are what we live for. (Travis White)
-on painting Christina's World...
The challenge to me was to do justice to her extraordinary conquest of a life which most people would consider hopeless... limited physically but by no means spiritually. (Andrew Wyeth)
It's a challenge to see how many ways one can say the same thing. (Ann Zielinski)
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