Quotes About Dedication

I had to cut a lot of things I wanted to keep [in The Art of Elegance]. I'm going to have to do a part two for sure.

There are times when quantity is at least as important as quality in learning an art.

I can concentrate on my art.

Martial arts are art forms and require a great deal of discipline and dedication. I so admire people who focus their lives on it, because it's not an easy thing to do.

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

I didn't go to a normal high school. It was for people in the performing arts.

It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly.

I've always been huge into martial arts.

At the end of the day, filmmaking is a sheer act of creative will. You have to be prepared to stick with your art no matter what comes your way.

I never want to discourage anyone who chooses the arts as a path because it's hard enough to make it in this business or even get ahead.

Choose to give your creative art priority over other things. You can do it.

I'm a martial arts buff, so anything martial arts.

I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.

I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.

I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.

Eagerly pursuing all the latest fads and trends cause he's a dedicated follower of fashion.

I don't really have hobbies. ?ombat arts was a hobby that became a career.

I'd always done martial arts I was always interested in fighting.

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

I'll walk through fire to do what I do because the movie business, when it's right, is the coolest art form ever invented.

Do lifelong artists pay a price for having chosen to make art? Of course. Everyone pays the price for his or her choices.

The strategy of keeping the studio close, like an outbuilding five paces from the house, or in the loft next door, or with the studio on one end and the bed on the other - makes art always available.

You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.

Art takes whatever - and as long as - it takes.