Quotes About Commitment

If you're an artist, you've got to prove it.

Critics are more committed to the rules of art than artists are.

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.

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.

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

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

Some jobs you do - maybe you don't - are jobs that pay mortgages and some are art and I don't care about not being paid on those.

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.

I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.

I think when an actress marries she should leave the stage. She cannot be happy if she is married and remains on the stage. She must care more for her art or for her husband.

I think if you're going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can't just write about politics, you have to try and be politics as well.

What-e're thou art, Act well thy part.

A lot of artists make art for five years, some artists make art for ten years, a few make art for fifteen: very few do it until they die.

I started in Martial Arts with my father when I was 4 years old. I guess I started because my two older brothers and mom trained so it was what our whole family did for fun.

I tell you, the arts - and especially ballet - the discipline is extraordinary. I was extremely impressed.

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

You've got to suffer for your art sometimes!

I'd mortgage any house for art.