Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.
When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Listen if you want to be heard
Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.