Do The Work Quotes

So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.

The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.

And love makes one calmer about many things, and in that way, one is more fit for one's work.

You realise the responsibility of carrying a film on your shoulders when people are investing money in you and they recognise the hard work you have to put in.

Science, like art, religion, political theory, or psychoanalysis - is work that holds out the promise of philosophic understanding, excites in us the belief that we can 'make sense of it all.

I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn't quite work

I love designing at the moment, I'm so happy with my work.

I might be shy, but in the field, where I have to do my work, I do it. I let my bat speak for myself.

Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.

You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

Never work with animals or children.

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.

Success. I don't believe it has any effect on me. For one thing I always expected it.

Do all the work you can do, every day, and do each piece of work in a perfectly successful manner; put the power of success, and the purpose to get rich, into everything that you do.

An editor is someone dedicated to destroying the work of a creator.

Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work.

Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.

We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.

Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly ugly work looks original at first.

The most interesting studio work, and perhaps the most practicable, is painting from pencil sketches and notes... It ensures the elimination of all facts but those essential to the effect.

It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he is incomprehensible, even inarticulate, in his work.

Submit your work to interested societies for exhibition where the critics in the light of their physical well-being and according to the extent of their knowledge, may appraise them conveniently.

The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment... The critic is in demand, but he must be competent.

I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.

Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.

In college I had to major in something, so I was like, "Okay I like art history, so I will major in that." I never really had any ambitions to work in museums or anything, though.

Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.

So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.

When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.

I create with my heart, so life and work inevitably intersect all too often.

As we take our places in the General Assembly and at the Council meetings, let us begin all our work in the name of God, for the solution of all our problems is a spiritual one.

Never judge a work of art by its defects.

God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.

I start every day by wanting more for others than I do for myself. I think that is how God works, and that is how I think we have to work.

A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed.

The art of love is God at work through you.

I only know that all is lost, and that nothing can help me unless I inherit money, strike oil or go to work.

All the directors that I've had the opportunity to work with are fantastic.

A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.

People often swear the first time they see my work. I like that.

I want to work with people who are good at what they do, and people who are passionate.

Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. You find work and work finds you.

I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.

Im not someone whos ever said anything definitive about his work. In my life also I have very little fixed form. I can change overnight.

Do more than dream. Work.

Work up imagination to the state of vision.

Forestry is the work of nation builders.

Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his mate. Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk