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“In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring.”

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Author:Robert Breault

“An artist's working life is marked by intensive application and intense discipline.”

Life Is Artist Discipline Discovery Intense Application Working Life

Author:John F. Kennedy

“An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.”

Should Mind Artist Space Rooms Discipline Studios Small Spaces Small Rooms

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and discipline to make good work out of the life, whether that goodness is in the world's aesthetics, its radicalism, its candor, its singularity, or its universality.”

World Desire Artist Responsibility Duty Discipline Goodness Work Out Good Work Aesthetics Singularity Candor Muster Universality Radicalism

Book:Epicurean Simplicity

Source: Epicurean Simplicity

“New artists will be discovered and trained. Moreover, when the artists who've gone abroad return home, they can share and pass on skills and knowledge to their peers here. I am certain their stints abroad will make them better artists and mentors. It will teach them discipline and independence. It will broaden their horizons.”

Home Artist Certain Teach Gone Share Return Discipline Skills Independence Horizon Mentor Peers Here I Am New Artists Skills And Knowledge

Author:Ryan Cayabyab

“An artist's fine goal is to manifest a well-nigh heroic self-discipline, carefully attending to all that concerns him.”

Wells Self Artist Goal Fine Discipline Concern Manifest Heroic Self Discipline Attending

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“It takes great technique, tremendous discipline and energy and practice, and damn few are capable. Art is confidence. Technique makes it possible to achieve artistic greatness, but doesn't guarantee it. The great piano artists are not the ones who are best playing Clementi exercises.”

Art Artist Energy Practice Achieve Greatness Discipline Exercise Capable Art Is Technique Artistic Damn Piano Guarantees

Author:Dirk Benedict

“The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own intimate sensitivity.”

Artist Discipline Lifetime Oneself Intimate Nerves Strict Sensitivity

Book:Daybook: The Journal of an Artist

Source: Daybook: The Journal of an Artist

“Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred. Baudelaire said that an artist is a child who has acquired adult capacities and discipline. Art education should help build those capacities and that discipline without messing over the child.”

People Should Children Art Said Helping Artist Subjects Discipline Adults Capacity Sacred Conviction Innocence Irrational Art Education Baudelaire

Author:Peter Schjeldahl

“Jerry Goldsmith is an artist who meets all the demands upon the composer in films. He communicates, integrates, subordinates, supports, and designs with discipline.”

Film Artist Support Design Discipline Demand Communicate Composer Integrating Subordinates Jerry

Author:Jerry Goldsmith

“To behave creatively in art means behavior with skill; and skill comes from discipline, not derangement. The artist who knows the rules -and proportion is one of them- knows where to bend and how to break them.”

Knows Mean Art Artist Break Discipline Skills Behavior Behave Proportion

Author:Burne Hogarth

“A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris or the poet's pad in Greenwich Village, the artist must have some kind of order or he will proudce a very small body of work. To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.”

Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

“The concentration of a small child at play is analogous to the concentration of the artist of any discipline. In real play, which is real concentration, the child is not only outside time, he is outside himself.”

Children Real Play Artist Focus Discipline Concentration Small Child

Book:A Circle of Quiet

Source: A Circle of Quiet

“Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient struggle against adverse circumstance, by the thrifty use of moderate opportunities. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline which no man need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter upon.”