"Artists are modest. They know they're not doing……" — Steven Pressfield

"Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work; they're just taking dictation."

— Steven Pressfield

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187 Quotes by Steven Pressfield

Steven Pressfield has 187 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got.
The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the…
The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul,…
The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when…
On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.
The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to…
The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is…
If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it,…
Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up…
F@*# self-doubt. I despise it. I hold it in contempt, along with the hell-spawned ooze-pit of Resistance from which it…
The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be…
The only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle.

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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… — 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… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — 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… — 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… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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