Quotes About Success

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.

It's just way more fun making art, growing, grinding for a fan base, and traveling the world with a friend.

I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts tell us children must succeed, with his peer group.

Do I have to change my name, will it get me far? Should I lose some weight, am I gonna be a star?

I've been very fortunate in my art career. It's something I would never have expected.

For some players, luck itself is an art

I wonder who I left behind on the other side of fame.

Picture all the money that I've gotten off tours. Now picture me plotting for more.

Preparing to lose is easy, but losing is hard. Preparing to win is hard, but winning is then easy.

Winner gave me my bread and Russell gave me my art.

I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.

I don't buy into the word "failure." I used to but not anymore. Trying not to fail is the opposite of art.

Where there's liberty, art succeeds.

Baseball is the ideal forum for teachiing the art of failure; the very best fail to get a hit seven out of ten times.

When you start in movie business... It is a business, actually. Nothing to do with art. Picasso is art, and Giacometti, but film acting is no art. Just the luck of being discovered, maybe.

The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.

The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.

The real hero must fail in order to succeed.

I'm really happy I was kicked out of CalArts (for a controversial art piece I made).

When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money

An artist who desires very little and achieves it has failed in life.

I want to be famous but unknown!

I would rather fail as an artist than succeed as anything else.

A piece of art only succeeds when it's creator...possesses the belief that brings it into being