Quotes About Persistence

The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead.

When you have a dream, it's going to be a lot of "I can't" people. You need to be the driving force to say I can.

Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost.

Art being so much greater than ourselves, it will not give up once it has taken hold.

An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.

It is either easy or impossible.

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

They say that a lion puts his all, even into catching a rabbit. You should make it a habit of putting your all into every little thing you do.

Art persists, it timelessly continues.

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you're just stretching your soul.

You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.

Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.

When you feel that you can't fight it, you just go for it. When it comes to the arts, passion should always trump common sense.

Mastery is the art of setting your foot on the path.

Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule.

Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.

Through the last few decades it [the art object] has been ripped off the wall and twisted through every conceivable permutation, yet back to the wall it insists on going.

Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that's how I felt about drawing.

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

I shall become a master in this art only after a great deal of practice.

Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.

Goals achieved with little effort are seldom worthwhile or lasting.