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Quotes About Courage

I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.
~ Patrick Swayze
Have the courage to analyze great emotions to create characters who shall be lofty and true. The whole art of the analytical novel lies there.
~ Paul Bourget
She's staring down her desires, while they're staring down her dress.
~ Phil Ochs
I am interested in risk, in art as well as in the realm of politics.
~ Rachel Kushner
I don't buy into the word "failure." I used to but not anymore. Trying not to fail is the opposite of art.
~ Unknown
Be sure, either that thou art stronger than thine enemy, or that thou hast a swifter pair of heels.
~ Saadi
Ship small art. Then, ship medium art. Then, ship world-changing, scary, change-your-underwear art.
~ Seth
This might end up in crying. If you're not prepared to cry about it, I'm not sure you're making art. And if you're not prepared to dance in anticipation, you're definitely not making art.
~ Seth Godin
I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it's terrifying and thrilling. A really cool thing to do. It's a dying art, in a way.
~ Tina Fey
The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art
~ William Blake
Another soldier has been killed. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
~ William C. Brown
Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st.
~ William Shakespeare
To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To be angry is to move, to be brave is to stand still. Therefore, if you're angry, you'll run away.)
~ William Shakespeare
Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Your need to feel significant will never be met, until you can conquer your fear and manage your focus.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Creativity takes courage.
~ Henri Matisse
I may have stumbledand stammered at your unexpected push, but the breezeanchored me and I learnt the art of survival
~ Vijaya Gowrisankar
No art is harder to master than believing in yourself.
~ Marty Rubin
If you don't know it's impossible, it's easier to do.
~ Neil Gaiman
In my ArtI have butone fear:that we willfail to befearless.
~ Clive Barker, Tonight, Again
Sometimes taking a leap faith requires an imaginative mind that can create the ending you are unable to see.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Let Art be your weapon, and you would never be defeated.
~ Unknown
There is the satisfaction of being able to look at the image without flinching. There is the pleasure of flinching.
~ Unknown
I think it takes much greater courage to create things to be gone than to create things that will remain
~ Unknown