“Fundamentalism and art are mutually exclusive. There is no such thing as fundamentalist art.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work; they're just taking dictation. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Every artist has to face his own demons and evolve his own method of working. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell whether he knows it or not.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Here's another test. Of any activity you do, aks yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“The more resistance you experience, the more important your unmanifested art/project/enterprise is to you - and the more gratification you will fell… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don't believe me, ask Van Gogh, who… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Ignorance and arrogance are the artist's and entrepreneur's indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no idea how difficult her… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“The drawing is also a reminder that there’s an artist within each of us, and we must encourage that artist to do… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying. Why is this… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
You know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to Vienna to… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Lat at nigh have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“The amateur has not mastered the technique of his art. Nor does he expose himself to judgment in the real world. If… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Self-doubt can be an ally. This is because it serves as an indicator of aspiration. It reflects love, love of something we… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a paycheck or picks up their medical insurance.… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
That’s why an artist must be a warrior and, like all warriors, artists over time acquire modesty and humility. They may, some… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Are you a born writer? Were you put on earth to be a painter, a scientist, an apostle of peace? In the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“They are the willing and skilled instruments of the gods and goddesses they serve. THE ARTIST'S LIFE Are you a born writer?… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“O Divine Poesy, goddess, daughter of Zeus, sustain for me this song of the various-minded man who, after he had plundered the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“I wouldn’t say “art” as much as “virtue,” in the ancient Greek sense of “andreia” – manly action – or “arete,” excellence.… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“. . . None of us are born as passive generic blobs waiting for the world to stamp its imprint on us.… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“The artist and the fundamentalist arise from societies at differing stages of development. The artist is the advanced model. His culture possesses… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“We experience [procrastination] as fear. But fear of what? Fear of the consequences of following our heart. Fear of bankruptcy, fear of… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after.… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The awakening an artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“You become an artist once you start saying that you are an artist” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals. Each asks the same questions: Who am… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel crying "Grow!… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against us. Step one is to recognize this. This recognition alone is… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“that of dealing death, of loosing another man’s soul and sending it down to hell. You want to savor it, to twist the blade… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. Therefore the more fear we feel about a specific… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us... Ideas come. Insights accrete. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both wrestle with… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
![“We experience [procrastination] as fear. But fear of what? Fear of the consequences of following our heart. Fear of bankruptcy, fear of poverty, fear of insolvency. Fear of groveling when we try to make it on our own, and of groveling when we give up and come crawling back to where we started…” quote by Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/77c/steven-pressfield-696_art_we-experience-procrastination-as-fear-bu_2311406.jpg)
