“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
Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work; they're just taking dictation. — 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
“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
“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
“. . . None of us are born as passive generic blobs waiting for the world to stamp its imprint on us.… — 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
The more you love your art/ calling/ enterprise, the more important its accomplishment to the evolution of your soul, the more you… — 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
“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
“When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The artist and the mother are vehicles, not originators. They don't create the new life, they only bear it. This is why… — 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
Making a judgment, taking a stand and then acting against an injustice or acting to support excellence is the stuff of the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable.” — 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
