Quotes About Perseverance

Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.

Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

we know the art of success; never forget

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

To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me.

I did martial arts and karate for eight years when I was growing up.

I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can't say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.

A lot of people who get into any art form have some form of mental..something in their head which is unstable

Writers are idiots with Underwoods.

I'm a fool to keep staying, when you've made hurting me such an art.

I don't think hip-hop is a dying art form. I think it's impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form.

You've got to suffer for your art sometimes!

Listen not to the critics who put their own dreams on the shelf.

The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.

Plexi, plexi, bend don't shatter. Once you're broken, shape won't matter.

I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a cartoonist.

When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.

Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on Art.

How long did it take me to delimit this art? Twenty years! ... It was a laborious process, but a methodical and rational one; gradually the hesitations were ironed out, but not all of a sudden.

It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.

If you want to make [your own way in music] it as a player, which is very difficult, as Art Blakey said to me, "We're blessed to have the opportunity to do this." So just keep that in mind.

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

I always loved the idea of learning martial arts, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I really started doing it and taking up karate.

I had to cut a lot of things I wanted to keep [in The Art of Elegance]. I'm going to have to do a part two for sure.