Quotes About Persistence

One training session won't change anything, but 10 will. Perseverance and straight up training.

How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy!... He who has not felt the difficulties of his art does nothing that counts.

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

Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be well worthwhile, and it will do you a world of good.

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.

The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing.

The artist will have had his revenge for being made to wait, A revenge not only necessary but right and clever-- Simply to leave him out of the scene forever.

I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.

When your art fails, make better art.

Neglect your art for one day and it will neglect you for two!

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.

Bad things happen, it's your job to overcome them.

When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within a couple of years. But I refused to give in.

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.

Art is a self-replicating force.

When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.

If you think art is a competitive forum, then you're going to stop doing it if you're not good. But if it's not competitive, it's something that you'll keep doing.

we know the art of success; never forget

All of those art-based fields are similar in that they're all hard to make a living in and they all require an intense amount of training and discipline.

How hard, how desperately hard, is the way of the experimenter in art!

Art simply can't be stopped.

A lot of artists make art for five years, some artists make art for ten years, a few make art for fifteen: very few do it until they die.