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Quotes About Dedication

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
~ Igor Stravinsky
All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
~ Banksy, Wall and Piece
In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
~ Julia Child
They say that a lion puts his all, even into catching a rabbit. You should make it a habit of putting your all into every little thing you do.
~ Koichi Tohei
Painting is like breathing to me. It's what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.
~ Julian Schnabel
Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
I take the horsemanship very seriously and I treat it with the same integrity that one would any of the fine arts.
~ Buck Brannaman
Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
~ Paul Cezanne
Art is a jealous mistress.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have a large number of enthusiastic admirers of my art. And they all sing a hymn in praise from the bottom of their hearts for my art.
~ Yayoi Kusama
Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
~ Claude Monet
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
~ William Faulkner
Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.
~ Jules Verne
Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.
~ Paula Abdul
If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you're doing becomes art.
~ Bill Russell
You haven't prepared yourself for worship if you just practice musical art
~ Lamar Boschman
Art must always remain earnest... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one.
~ Arshile Gorky
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
~ Edgar Degas
Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.
~ Walter Kirn
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else.
~ Javier Bardem
When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body!
~ Bruce Lee
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Genius is the art of taking pains
~ Claude C. Hopkins