Ambition Quote by Robert Breault

The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect,…

— Adam Ferguson

Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.

— Georges Braque

A starving artist has only so many brush stokes before he fades away...

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

“The artist is now giving a first coat of paint to that tautly stretched canvas which the scientist has been so busy stretching that…

— Henry Miller

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret…

— Ben Okri

I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point…

— Brian Ferneyhough

It is working within limits that the craftsman reveals himself.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man must know his limitations.

— David Gemmell

A man's got to know his limitations.

— Harry Callahan

Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story.

— W. Somerset Maugham

An artist of understanding and experience can show more of his great power and art in small things roughly and rudely done, than many…

— Albrecht Durer