Action Quote by Steven Pressfield

“After all, our main business in art, as in life, is to strive. Honest effort meets with its own reward, even where it does…

— Aubertine Woodward Moore

Artfulness is not simple entertainment, especially during upheaval, unleashing creative life is sacred duty.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Artists lead unglamorous daily lives of discipline and routine, but their work is full of passion. Each has a vision and feels responsibility to…

— Merrill Brockway

“Over time, the life of a productive artist becomes filled with useful conventions and practical methods, so that a string of finished pieces continues…

— David Bayles

“ Work does not “give” dignity to our lives through the excellence or happiness it fosters. The dignity of work comes less from its…

— Russell Muirhead

I feel, as artists, our duty is to keep working and keep making whatever we believe in.

— Sunil Grover

“I wouldn’t say “art” as much as “virtue,” in the ancient Greek sense of “andreia” – manly action – or “arete,” excellence. In my…

— Steven Pressfield

“In every age, art holds up to us the standard pattern of exemplary conduct, and real life does its best to conform.”

— Dorothy Sayers

When somebody greedily comes along and thinks that they gonna snatch everything, and you have so many people that have not, the passion that…

— Chuck D

“Art really does instruct us in how to think, feel, and behave. To be an artist is to have great power. To be the…

— Rod Dreher

The function of art is to struggle against obligation.

— Amedeo Modigliani

What my work is, is my approach to it. It's the practice. And my work is about the effort that I make to get…

— Anna Deavere Smith