Work Quotes - page 7

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws. (Hans Hofmann)
Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in the right direction. Easiness, relaxation, comfort - these are not conditions that usually accompany serious work. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
Majority rule will only work if you're considering individual rights. You can't have five wolves and one sheep vote on what they want to have for supper. View quote
Larry Flynt
Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself. View quote
P. L. Travers
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous. View quote
Margot Fonteyn
I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system. View quote
Edie Sedgwick
I can't even really tell a joke. I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work but it ain't easy. View quote
Madeline Kahn
I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe. (Harriet Martineau)
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. View quote
Rebecca West
A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier. View quote
Edith Evans
Any work of architecture which does not express serenity is a mistake. View quote
Luis Barragán
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. View quote
Woody Allen
It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman. View quote
Tallulah Bankhead
The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work. View quote
Margaret Fuller
I don't work at being ordinary. View quote
Paul McCartney
You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex. View quote
Mary McCarthy
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. View quote
Anne Lamott
Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized. (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet - it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you. View quote
Joss Whedon
My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could. View quote
Mikhail Gorbachev
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. View quote
Thomas Friedman