Quotes About Motivation

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.

Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.

I have noticed that no sooner do people embark on a course of action which they do not find wholly satisfactory than they muster every argument to persuade others to imitate it.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.

Management is the art of getting things done through people.

If you know the why, you can live any how.

Pictures just come to my mind and I tell my heart to go ahead.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.

When you have a dream, it's going to be a lot of "I can't" people. You need to be the driving force to say I can.

Mine is the art of inspiring people to turn themselves inside out, transform their suffering into art, their art into awareness and their awareness into action

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.

If you train 100% the result will be 100%.

A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

I get angry about things, then go on and work.

I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.

Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always do it to try to push my own envelope to be the best I can be.

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the 'essential dimension,' the thing that makes great works of art great.

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live

Don't think about making art, just get it done.

Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.

Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be well worthwhile, and it will do you a world of good.