Quotes About Sacrifice

It's not what you're going to take from martial arts, it's what you have to give to martial arts

I'm not an exhibitionist. But, honestly, for my art I'll do anything almost. I'll go there.

Fatherland before everything, art afterward.

I'd prostitute my talents if it would further my cause, steal if there was no way out, killing my friends or anyone else if it would help my art.

The art of compromise centers on the willingness to give up something in order to get something else in return. Successful artists get more than they give up.

Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics.

Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.

Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?

Someone told me once that to create true art you must be willing to bleed and let others watch.

To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me.

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

Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form.

You've got to suffer for your art sometimes!

I'd mortgage any house for art.

"Is Art worth dying for?" Well I don't know a single inanimate object that's worth dying for.

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

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.

The community of the Giver had achieved at such great price. A community without danger or pain. But also, a community without music, color or art. And books.

Anytime you have to sacrifice your art, or integrity, it's a bad deal, no matter what they're offering.

I'll be honest, I worry sometimes about what I've done. I have tied my whole person to my art and, whatever it takes to get that hook, I will go there and do it.

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

I can tell for sure, the technologists have made it clear that they don't care about musicians. The arts have been sacrificed on the altar of technological advancement.

When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.

You cannot cross the narrow bridge of art carrying all its tools in your hands. Some you must leave behind.