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When anyone can produce dreck or publish gibberish, and not only get away with it but be celebrated for it, the discipline is no longer a discipline, and it will get no respect. (Darby Bannard)
Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself. (Romare Bearden)
In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring. (Robert Brault)
What is before me and what is inside of me governs all. (Henry Casselli)
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it. (Miguel De Cervantes)
It's a true test of discipline to remain in control and to not let the temptation of color force unwanted decisions. (Scott L. Christensen)
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. (Stephen R. Covey)
Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline. (George Eliot)
-on Willem de Kooning...
Like bodies these canvases are subject to both discipline and incontinence, to the utmost athletic control, and to fumbles, spurts, accidents. (Andrew Forge)
It is essential... that discipline should not be practised like a rule imposed on oneself from the outside, but that it becomes an expression of one's own will; that it is felt as pleasant, and that one slowly accustoms oneself to a kind of behaviour which one would eventually miss, if one stopped practising it. (Erich Fromm)
One factor that makes a good and successful artist, is discipline. It's the essence of the whole thing. And sadly, many young artists today lack that quality. (Irwin Greenberg)
Art is the only discipline where saying less means more. (Andrew Hamilton)
Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure. (Sidney Harris)
Art is work like any other discipline, and most artists and would-be artists and art lovers need to realize that. (Heidi Hehn)
It takes discipline and an objectively self-critical attitude about one's own work to reach a high level of achievement, and it's easy to fall short of the mark. (John Hulsey)
Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence. (Franz Kafka)
Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure. (Dalai Lama)
Painting as a discipline is an intelligent pursuit. (David Leffel)
An artist's fine goal is to manifest a well-nigh heroic self-discipline, carefully attending to all that concerns him. (Eric Maisel)
Do we not find freedom along the guiding lines of discipline? (Yehudi Menuhin)
Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing. (Henry Moore)
Discipline is admired in opera singers, engineers, dancers, pianists or brain surgeons but, for some peculiar reason, when a painter is undisciplined, it is considered creative, new and innovative, or even genius. Usually, it is just bad painting. (Patricia Moran)
Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world - to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want. (Ayn Rand)
It's so easy to be undisciplined. And to be disciplined is so against my character, my general nature anyway, that I have to strain a little bit to keep on the right track. (Robert Rauschenberg)
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently. (Anthony Robbins)
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. (Jim Rohn)
With self-discipline most anything is possible. (Theodore Roosevelt)
This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross.
This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away. (Rumi)
Apply the same disciplines in the studio as you would apply outside. Think about editing information and making the composition interesting. (Len Sodenkamp)
A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind. (Edmund Spenser)
You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline. (Twyla Tharp)
Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit. (Twyla Tharp)
An artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as disciplined as a mathematician. Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom. It prepares an artist to choose his own limitations... (Wayne Thiebaud)
Mental discipline of directing and choosing ones thoughts, of letting go of the ones that do not serve the process is of utmost importance. (Helena Tiainen)
-The Power of Discipline
Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them everyday, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor. (Brian Tracy)
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. (Anne Truitt)
A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions (though those are its raw materials), but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline. (Evelyn Waugh)
Duty is what one expects from others – it is not what one does oneself. (Oscar Wilde)
Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline. (Jamie Wyeth)
It may take a little self-discipline - be simple, be kind, stay rested. Attend to your own inner-health and happiness. (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)
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