Quotes About Commitment

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.

Art being so much greater than ourselves, it will not give up once it has taken hold.

I draw manga, therefore I am!

The way is in training.

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%.

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

Do whatever you do intensely.

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.

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

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.

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.

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

I take the horsemanship very seriously and I treat it with the same integrity that one would any of the fine arts.

Art is a jealous mistress.

Art must always remain earnest... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one.

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else.

When you feel that you can't fight it, you just go for it. When it comes to the arts, passion should always trump common sense.

Mastery is the art of setting your foot on the path.

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Genius is the art of taking pains

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.