Quotes About Motivation

To be your best today, your only goal is to outperform the guy you were yesterday.

I like the platform to show your art and everything that goes along with that. To show your voice and hopefully find films that are more politically driven, films that maybe inspire.

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

Once they witnessed one of his painting sold at auction for $100,000. And asked how you do it, he said, 'I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.'

As a kid, I was heavily into martial arts and wanted to be the next Jean-Claude Van Damme.

A true artist is driven by the never-ending desire to create.

Conquering the world with words, leading the children like herds.

Rule of art: let half-blind purpose lead you.

I feel lost not doing art, unsatisfied, anxious, bored. Everything else in comparison seems not terribly important.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.

Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there.

When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.

An art school is generated only by the intensity and heat of a common pressure.

If you think art is a competitive forum, then you're going to stop doing it if you're not good. But if it's not competitive, it's something that you'll keep doing.

we know the art of success; never forget

I hear you're losing weight again, Mary Jane. Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for?

Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.

You can choose to be mad in a negative way where it fuels you to do mean, hateful things, or you can let your madness fuel your art and channel it in a positive way.

I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don't do that so much anymore.

There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired.

It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.

In fact, the first piece of art I ever sold, I paid someone else to make the next one, so I could actually keep going out drinking.

Whether or not anyone could have done it is not what's important. What is important is whether or not anyone would have done it.