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Artist Quotes by Steven Pressfield
- The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on…
- That’s why an artist must be a warrior and, like all warriors, artists over time acquire modesty and humility. They may, some of them, conduct…
- The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration.
- The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take…
- I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all enterprises. Labors of…
- I believe in previous lives and the Muse—and that books and music exist before they are written and that they are propelled into material being…
- You know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to Vienna to live and study...…
- It is a commonplace among artists and children at play that they're not aware of time or solitude while they're chasing their vision. The hours…
- Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a paycheck or picks up their medical insurance. The ones who…
- Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work; they're just taking dictation.
- The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals.
- As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising we…
- Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and…
- If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you are. The counterfeit…
- A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and…
- No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop…
- This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates…
- The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He…
- Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew…
- The artist and the mother are vehicles, not originators. They don't create the new life, they only bear it. This is why birth is such…
- The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don't believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after…
- ...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.
More Artist Quotes
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe
- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
- I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views. — Kevin Bacon
- The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
- I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
- I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work… — Erykah Badu
- Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or… — Erykah Badu