Quotes About Aspiration

IN the morning when you wake up, reflect on the day ahead and aspire to use it to keep a wide-open heart and mind. At the end of the day, before going to sleep, think over what you've done. If you fulfilled your aspiration, even once, rejoice in that. If you went against your aspiration, rejoice that you are able to see what you did and are no longer living in ignorance. This way you will be inspired to go forward with increasing clarity, confidence, and compassion.

Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.

The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.

Everyday that goes by I try to improve myself and searching for something that may even be impossible; perfection.

Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

One of the functions of art is to offer a more desirable reality - a model, as it were, of another style of existence with its own pace and its own cultural reference.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there

An artist's career always begins tomorrow

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.

As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts.

It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents.

The naturalist picked up the eagle and said to it, "Thou dost belong to the sky and not to this earth; stretch forth thy wings and fly."

I want to be free... free to develop my art.

I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder. So I went to art college, and it just gradually happened.

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

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

As a kid, I was heavily into martial arts and wanted to be the next Jean-Claude Van Damme.