Quotes About Effort

I'm a terrible cook, but if I could cook, I would see that in art as well, it's how much creative energy you put into something.

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.

Great art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself.

Greatness in art is always a by-product.

Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand.

The price we sell things for is not important. What is important is we sell art that has to be replaced. You become good in art by doing art. The more you sell, the more you must produce.

I wish you to be persuaded that success in your art depends almost entirely on your own industry; but the industry which I principally recommend is not the industry of the hands, but of the mind.

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

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

Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose-selling-that it operates without that painful, poignant mixture of aspiration and effort and compromise.

Preparing to lose is easy, but losing is hard. Preparing to win is hard, but winning is then easy.

...if I can do it, it's not art.

practice makes better

LABOUR is effort, while ART is effortless! What are you?

The harder you work, the more you produce, the more you create, the more you will be rejected. By people who never created shit.

Just a beginner, but he learned so fast. Everything came so damn easy to him. Not true. The hard things cam easy. But the easy things he found impossibly hard.

There's a fine line between minimalism and not trying very hard.

I had considered myself some kind of genius and had considerably underestimated the toils and difficulties encountered along the path to an art.

A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances.

Only the mediocre artist is always at his best.

The brush must draw by itself. This cannot happen if one does not practice constantly. But neither can it happen if one makes an effort.

The first thousand are the hardest.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

You can't always control the circumstances - only how you react to those circumstances; you can always control your attitude and your effort.