Quotes About Work

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

The work is what it is and hopefully it's seen as feminist work, or feminist-advised work, but I'm not going to go around espousing theoretical bullshit about feminist stuff.

I get angry about things, then go on and work.

Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them.

I don't see many artists who are not trying to bring their work to the public - -to the contrary I see artists nearly desperate to get attention for their art and, failing that, often for themselves.

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

I would go there quite frequently. I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color.

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

A menial task which must be mine, that shall I glorify and make an art of it.

If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

She said she was working for the ABC news, it was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use.

The true artist can only labor con amore.

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists' relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.

... alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit.

Art is a profession, not a shrine.

There's no art where there's no fee.