Claude Monet Quotes

I can't imagine Weezer stopping. We just love doing what we're doing, and I think we'll keep going until we fall down dead. Even if the audience is abandoning us, I can't imagine doing anything else!

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines.' Each discipline I approach as a major undertaking that I put my whole self into.

I will keep painting until I die.

Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.

I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it's so essential that when I'm involved in the actual process, my so-called 'real life' becomes almost incidental, which becomes worrying.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

Making music, if you're a real musician, you carry on regardless in this world.

College football, acting, opera singing - I approached them all in the same obsessive way.

If there's anything I can promise is that I'm gonna paint till the last breath.

The fire within you as an actor should always keep burning. That should be the mantra for any good actor.

I've always been passionate about movies, TV, and writing, and I've been working so hard at it for so long. There were lots of setbacks, but I loved it so much, there was no alternative.

Your ability to concentrate single-mindedly on one thing, the most important thing, and stay at it until it is complete, is an essential prerequisite for success.

I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.

Art is jealous, and demands our whole strength ... .

Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let it be so great, so strong, that there may be nothing else left in the mind; no place for anything else, no time for anything else.

Obsession is beautiful. It's what makes art.

That's the difference between the serious artist and the craftsman--the craftsman can take material and because of his abilities do a professional job of it. The serious artist, like Proust, is like an object caught by a wave and swept to shore. He's obsessed by his material; it's like a venom working in his blood and the art is the antidote.

Constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched. When a man's undivided attention is centered on one object, his mind will constantly be suggesting improvements of value, which would escape him if his brain was occupied by a dozen different subjects at once.

I think if you're inspired, you don't let a little thing like scheduling and deadlines get in your way.

A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating.

Your musical soul is like facets of a jewel, and you stick out one facet at a time ... (and) I tend to work real hard on whatever it is I do, to get it up to speed, up to a professional level. I tend to bury myself in one thing for years at a time.

You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

I love every aspect of the performing arts and can't imagine myself doing anything different. I give my heart to every project.

Concentrate . . . for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of the soul.