Quotes About Work

It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part.

My body is my art, and it's also the tool that I use to make money.

I'm all about supporting anyone whose art is also the way they make their living.

Some jobs you do - maybe you don't - are jobs that pay mortgages and some are art and I don't care about not being paid on those.

Obviously, I never had to sketch anything out. To me, that was the appeal of working with clip art, working digitally. You make it and it's done.

But generally speaking, people weren't fired, art jobs were very hard to get, so something really calamitous had to happen to a person who was working there in order for you to find a space.

The art feeds my mind and soul and the job pays my bills. Finding the balance can be a challenge, but I am very fortunate for it.

In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.

In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, Till thou return unto the ground; for thou Out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth, For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.

My worst day in the gym is still more fun than my best day in the office!

Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint.

...if I can do it, it's not art.

He who works with his hands is a laborer.He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.

LABOUR is effort, while ART is effortless! What are you?

The harder you work, the more you produce, the more you create, the more you will be rejected. By people who never created shit.

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

That a work of creation struggles and insistently demands to be brought into being is a fact that no genuine artist would think of denying.

An amateur is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.

What's an artist but the dregs of his work - the human shambles that follows it around?

I just believe in whatever you're going to do, even if it's work, have a little bit of fun attitude about it. You can be happy.

If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.

I think that my "Let's get it done! Let's have fun! Let's make a great movie!" attitude helped. I rarely have problems on my movies with egos and attitudes.

A man is a business failure if he lets his family life interfere with his business record

Never give orders—give instructions. … Make a game out of your work. … The greatest dividend in human life is happiness.