# remember that this is hard It is unbelievably **hard** to be a creative person bringing new things into the world. There is no clear path through [[uncertainty]]. There are no rules on how to move forward. The artist figures it out as they go along. And there are no guarantees of success. Damn. > I always thought that an artist's was the hardest life of all. Its rigour—not always apparent to an outside observer—is that an artist has to navigate forward into the unknown guided only by an internal sense of direction, keep up a set of standards which are imposed entirely from within, meanwhile maintaining faith that the task he has set himself to is worth struggling constantly to achieve. This is all contrary to the notion of bohemian disorder. > > — Lucien Freud _above quote was found on [Subtle Maneuvers](https://masoncurrey.substack.com/p/the-artists-life-is-the-hardest-life), a newsletter from Mason Currey_. --- - [ ] more about difficulty of artists being misunderstood. --- tags: #creativity #process home: [[! creative process]]