Quotes About Dedication

I go to gyms quite a bit, martial arts gyms, MMA gyms. I try to train with the best people, with who's who in the martial arts, just to keep myself sharp.

I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.

You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.

All I owe the world is my art.

A true artist is practically married to his or her art form so I just couldn't turn my back on it.

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.

I'm a huge boxing and mixed martial arts fan.

Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well.

Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there.

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.

I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.

I started to paint in the year 2000. I never thought of going to an art school, even though I loved art.

Art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only.

Great art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself.

I have long been a fan and enthusiast where art is concerned.

Art is the most important thing to me in the entire world. It is my passion. Nothing else. End of story.

Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.

All of those art-based fields are similar in that they're all hard to make a living in and they all require an intense amount of training and discipline.

It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people.

I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.

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

The true artists is one who insists on producing a supply, whether or not there's any demand.

I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane.

Football is an art form in itself. All sports are.