Quotes About Persistence

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

First I went to C.W. Post and I was a psychology and theater major and then I transferred to NYU's Tisch School of the Arts as a drama major.

I wish you to be persuaded that success in your art depends almost entirely on your own industry; but the industry which I principally recommend is not the industry of the hands, but of the mind.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.

You go in and record and sing them some and you go back in and rerecord and sing them some more. That's kind of how I did this album [The Art of Elegance].

Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent.

At the end of the day, filmmaking is a sheer act of creative will. You have to be prepared to stick with your art no matter what comes your way.

I never want to discourage anyone who chooses the arts as a path because it's hard enough to make it in this business or even get ahead.

I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.

I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.

American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.

I think a lot of becoming an entrepreneur is something which people have to learn just from getting out there and giving it a go, and having to learn the art of survival.

I don't really have hobbies. ?ombat arts was a hobby that became a career.

Art takes whatever - and as long as - it takes.

I think that there is always room for improvement so I am seeking to reach as far as I can in my field of art, film and animation.

Writing is an art like other arts. Dancers don't dance every once in a while. Musicians don't stop practicing. They are dedicated to what they do.

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art

Always good to remember when you're making art. You don't have to like it, just be ready to do the next thing.

Doggedness in art is no substitute for inspiration.

Your first 10, 000 photographs are your worst.

You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.

practice makes better

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