Work Quotes

"To those who see me as merely fortunate, I say: hard work created my luck."

"The depth of one's work reflects the depth of one's character."

"Work becomes joy when infused with purpose and passion."

"My only wish is to live as long as possible working at my art."

"You can muse on that, while I am getting on."

"You like your work, you don't look at it anymore."

"I have worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results."

"The composition of a single piece can consume years of the soul's labor."

"What is technique but the marriage of intention and discipline?"

"The world needs fewer revolutionaries and more faithful craftspeople."

"The master's hand is evident in every stroke."

"Work with passion or do not work at all."

"I prefer to tack the unstreched canvas to the hard wall or floor."

"Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement."

"I walk around it, work on it from all sides and literally paint myself into the painting."

"I don't use the accident, as I consider it."

"Pictures must be finished."

"The paintings exist in the studio."

"There are moments of total exhaustion after painting."

"I don't work from drawings or color sketches."

"Art requires sacrifice and dedication."

"The work is never finished, only abandoned."

"The mind creates what the hands must execute."

"The work that lasts is the work done with love."

"I work because stopping is worse than continuing."

"Art demands of us that we shall not stand idle."

"Composing is not such a terrible lot, you know. When you are not composing you are thinking about composing."

"The joy of creating must transcend the pain of labor."

"I have worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results."

"Idleness is the beginning of all vice."