Quotes About Dedication

It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.

I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

If you don't care about losing, you will focus on technique.

Keep doing what you like to do. That's all it is.

Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.

I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.

At culinary school, none of the things we use to define ourselves outside that world - actor, producer, student - none of that matters. It's a magical art form.

I think most dancers would agree that the art of ballet chooses the dancer, not the other way around.

To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the next instant

A true Grandmaster is a person who starts the arts at a very young age and continues it until their body will no longer allows it. Then they still contribute mentally to the art.

Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost.

I draw manga, therefore I am!

The way is in training.

Chess, like other arts, must be practiced to be appreciated.

I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.

If you train 100% the result will be 100%.

Art was not created as a way to riches. Strive to become a true artist; all else will take care of itself.

Do whatever you do intensely.

I have not permitted myself to be ignorant of any martial art that exists. Why? Such ignorance is a disgrace to someone who follows the path of the martial arts.

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

1-2 out of every 100 students reach Black Belt and of those only 1 out of every 1,000 achieves his 2nd Dan

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.