Quotes About Resilience

I think a philistine environment should be bracing for young artists. You have to make your own enjoyment, you've got to make your own art.

The military has no constant form, just as water has no constant shape - adapt as you face the enemy, without letting them know beforehand what you are going to do.

I endured many weeks of it, but I had a big background in martial arts and fighting as a kid, so kind of all the problems got brushed away and I was ready.

Always face your challenges head on and make them your strengths.

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.

If you had a large vase with a big crack down the middle of it, a Japanese art museum would put the vase on a pedestal and shine a spotlight on the crack!

Nature often lets us down when we most need her; let us turn to art.

The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

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.

The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.

It's so much of what art and creativity are, being able to confront your own demons. If you can do that, you can get through just about everything.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.

I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity.

we know the art of success; never forget

One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.

We will die, but art will remain.

Pain, thou art not an evil

Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help

On many days, harder than the act of making the art itself is the act of sharing it and living in a culture that you know is built to tear you down.

Only the poor can create art.

Art simply can't be stopped.