Quotes About Achievement

Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.

Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.

I got my degree in culinary arts in 1978.

Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always do it to try to push my own envelope to be the best I can be.

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.

I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate, and I became quite good at it, because I had something to prove. And more than anything, I needed to feel safe.

When you're dead weight, in the right position, you win. And in reality, you wouldn't see someone my size kicking seven martial arts experts and winning.

I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.

Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.

A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.

Goals achieved with little effort are seldom worthwhile or lasting.

Don't think about making art, just get it done.

There's been million-seller books and million-seller CDs. But there hasn't been, until now, million-seller art.

I started thinking what could happen with my art and I realized that the biggest thing that could is that it winds up in a museum. It's like finding a rare animal and putting it in the zoo.

The marathon is an art; the marathoner is an artist.

The fine arts thing at college was always too much for me to think about. What I was more involved in was being successful at arts school.

He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.

One is also reminded of how, in art, the tortoise so often overtakes the hare.

All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts; And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts.

To be your best today, your only goal is to outperform the guy you were yesterday.

The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'.

Once they witnessed one of his painting sold at auction for $100,000. And asked how you do it, he said, 'I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.'

Someday I'm gonna be famous. Do I have talent, well, no. These days you really don't need it.