Quotes About Endurance

I threw so hard (after striking out Art Fletcher & Doc Crandall in the 9th inning of Game 1 of the 1912 World Series) I thought my arm would fly right off my body.

Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.

Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.

We will die, but art will remain.

Pain, thou art not an evil

I suppose I do believe that the greatest art consoles a wound that it creates, that art can give you the capacity to endure and respond to the pain it forces you to feel. Psychological pain, I mean.

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.

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!

Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.

Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent.

I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.

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

American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.

There exists no more difficult art than living.

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

People tend to view land art as something that happened at a certain historical moment - like minimal art, which I was also very much involved with. But it still goes on. It's very much alive.

Artists, by their free expressions, encourage others to be free. This is the quality that makes works of art enduring.

But maybe that's how it is with art. You suffer, and in the end, everyone thinks it's cool.

Nothing's better for art than a little old-fashioned suffering.

Sometimes taking a leap faith requires an imaginative mind that can create the ending you are unable to see.

The best thing about Art is that the people who create it live forever.

Surviving is a necessity. Living is an art.

Begging is much more difficult than it looks. Contrary to popular belief, it's a high art form that takes years of dedicated practice to master.