Work Comes Quotes
35 quotes by 34 authors
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with the ad-vancing years,…
— George Sand
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You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You do not have…
— Amy Tan
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Most of my work comes from ideas. I can usually do only a few versions of each idea. Land Art and Body Art were particularly…
— Dennis Oppenheim
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Look, if you can indulge in your passion, life will be far more interesting than if you're just working. You'll work harder at it, and…
— Richard Branson
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It can pay off, being a hack. Given the depraved state of American culture, a slick dude can make millions being a hack. But even…
— Steven Pressfield
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The work comes into the world at an undetermined hour, from a still unknown, but it comes inevitably.
— Giacomo Puccini
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I go to my studio every day. Some days work comes easily. Other days nothing happens. Yet on the good days the inspiration is only…
— Beverly Pepper
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My work comes from the experience of crowds, injustice, and aggression… I feel an affinity for art when it was made a form of existence,…
— Magdalena Abakanowicz
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It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its…
— Rebecca Solnit
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Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes.
— Tom Cochrane
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Inspiration is hogwash. My work comes directly out of my loves and hates. Muses don't whisper in my ear, and ideas don't flow over my…
— James Victore
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The best work comes from people who are motivated by crisis. When something stops their original idea, they respond by coming up with something even…
— Pharrell Williams
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It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.
— Steve Lacy
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Great work comes from great joy. Leave the angst for the movies; do art - that is fun.
— Jack White
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The thing to remember is that the work comes first, and not to get distracted by anything else. If you keep focused on the work,…
— James Nesbitt
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Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.
— Theophile Gautier
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My greatest work comes in the community.
— Marion Barry
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All my work comes out of my life.
— Elsa Peretti
Who Wrote These Work Comes Quotes
34 authors contributed a total of 35 Work Comes Quotes, led by these top contributors: