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The future is personal.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
The future of work revolution begins one person at a time.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Embracing personal vulnerability is required if you wish to work, play and succeed in the future.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Before tomorrow becomes your legacy, come the choices you must make today.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
The choices you make create your future.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
To understand what makes you future strong, and what being strong means, is to understand how and why you make choices.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Future strong is being focused enough and mindful enough and courageous enough to search for patterns and order when all others see chaos and noise.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Future strong is letting go of what no longer serves you. Quickly.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Future strong is as focused on the success of every individual as it is on organizational success — creating an environment where people can achieve their dreams and full potential.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Future strong builds actions upon reflection, questions, curiosity, seeking to understand root causes and systemic connections.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Future strong strives for simplicity for all:Least amount of individual effort, energy and time to create maximum impact by each person.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Future strong is relationship-driven and joyful.Its best bet is on people. Its outcomes create joyfor others and ourselves.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
We must stop destroying human capacity. Now.Too many of today’s leaders are holding back the future because it comes wrapped in risks.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
If you are a senior executive, you need to embrace each individual’s right to choose his or her own hardships — and you must talk about that openly, candidly.
— Bill Jensen
Everyone has a right to a strong and independent future: All of us have the right, and personal obligation, to choose whether or not company-driven hardships and sacrifices, overall, are shackling or strengthening our future. And to keep that right, each of us must be our own best advocate.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Leaders step up, even when they feel like hiding. And they do so because they care.
— Michele Jennae, CHARGE! The Patchwork Rhino
You live, work and lead others in the most exciting time, ever! Are you strong enough?
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Your past is handing you a tool you can use to leap into your future: the crucible moments from your own life. The power you need is in looking back to look forward.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
What will you do today so tomorrow becomes the legacy you wanted to leave?
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
If we don’t communicate, we certainly can’t get much done and if we don’t communicate authentically, what we get done is less effective.
— Michele Jennae, CHARGE! The Patchwork Rhino
No matter how crazed you get, no matter what pressures you're under, no matter who needs what by yesterday... Always remember: everything you do uses a portion of someone else's life.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
People will change their habits quickly IF they have a strong reason for doing so.
— Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
You will experience 100 transformative moments every year.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
We each must select the best hardships for our best future.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
It's time for you to be the hero of your own journey.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Your choices are where your future begins.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Significant is the doer, the rest just watch!
— Gunbir Singh
He was more than comfortable with the language of imperious persuasion.
— Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
The king's "only interest in government was a pious but simpleminded desire for reproachment
— Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
It's time to consider: What are the toughest choices you face as you lead yourself and others into the future?
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Consistency in right thinking and right doing is how you stay up in a down world.
— DeWayne Owens
Future shackled is when uncertainty is the enemy that must be beaten into submission.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Future strong is filled with disruptive heroes. Are you one?
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
We all deserve the best possible future.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
YOU are the next big thing.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Who have you chosen to become?
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Who will you choose to have your back?
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Leaders: Your job in the future is to create a space where others feel save being vulnerable. Where fears and failures are openly discussed and used as lessons moving forward.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Despite several millennia of building best business practices, despite all the analysis and planning, and forced discipline and structure, what makes us human will never be cleaved from how work gets done.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
The key difference between captain and coach? The latter’s opportunities for influence come at moments when play isn't happening,
— Carolyn  Taylor, Walking The Talk
Much of the outward business of kingship came naturally.
— Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
Always remember: everything you do uses a portion of someone else's life.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Choosing to know yourself deeply hands you a torch to see beyond yourself, into the future. Into a strong future.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Building a strong future is living at the intersection of today and tomorrow: where living in the moment and who you have chosen to become dance together as one.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
What's your one thing? When you pause long enough to hear its heartbeat, your one thing will take your breath away. When you pause long enough to feel it, your eyes will tear up or you won't be able to stop smiling, dancing and having a blast!
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Don’t allow your thoughts of frustration allow you to make decisions out of desperation.
— DeWayne Owens
Striving for successful goals will have a tendency at times to be discouraging, thankless, and mentally draining. You are entitled to these feelings, however you are not entitled to give up.
— DeWayne Owens
When manipulation flutters around everywhere, neither pull nor push anyone. Just do one thing - don't trust anyone!
— Ashish Patel
The only principle which will make you more content, less bitter is to live a life that has "Less excuses, more results. Less distraction, more focus. Less me, more we. Live with "Gratitude" not with "Greytitude
— Abhysheq Shukla, The Reflection "Success or Stress"Choose Wisely
Leaders inspire accountability through their ability to accept responsibility before they place blame.
— Courtney Lynch
Regardless of whether people have free will, human flourishing requires that they live in an environment in which they are treated as if they did.
— Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
Any goal, no matter what size, can be achieved if it is tackled with courage, initiative, perseverance, and integrity.
— Angie  Morgan
Cronkite is not a genius at anything except being straight, honest, and normal.
— Douglas Brinkley, Cronkite
Your friend Plato holds that commonwealths will only be happy when either philosophers rule or rulers philosophize: how remote happiness must appear when philosophers won't even deign to share their thoughts with kings.
— Thomas More
Tough times should serve only one purpose in your life
—  to teach you how to be tougher on the inside than your circumstances are on the outside.
Having a team deliver standards and performance is much easier when they want to be there and want to be led by you.
— Tony Curl
All progress begins with a decision. Effective leadership requires decisive action. Embrace the process of deciding, yet recognize when you have reached a choice point.
— Angie  Morgan
Focus your thoughts today on HOW ‘You can!’ instead of accepting that ‘You can’t.’ Amazing ideas will come your way.
— DeWayne Owens
Each decision you make today has the potential to unlock and open doors of profitable benefits or close the doors to great opportunities. Think before you act and make your decisions wisely today.
— DeWayne Owens
Trust and believe in the vision of your mind that others cannot yet see. While others abide by the creed that seeing is believing, you must know that believing is seeing.
— DeWayne Owens
Expect progress, not perfection.
— John F. MacArthur Jr.
Leadership … is a collective and constantly redistributed function, and not the private property of the few or The One.
— Harrison Owen
The challenge for us is to find some response that actually inspires change rather than clinging to the old ways that cause resentment, and more importantly, distract from the real problem.
— Adele Faber, How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
A leader is someone who influences outcomes and inspires others.
— Courtney Lynch
At Lead Star, we believe that leadership can help you create a better workplace, a better life, and a better you.
— Courtney Lynch
It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first, perhaps because ofthe need to assuage an unusual power drive.
— Robert Greenleaf
We have to work and serve humanity while we have the grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Around the world, the perception and reality of corruption and bad governance in public places remains very high. But it isn’t just in governments that these are found; they can permeate through society, where they are rampant in private enterprises and even religious institutions. We need to deal with the causes, not just consequences. You will need to play your role, both as a good example as well as part of the social police force. Cultures and beliefs must change at a personal level as well as at institutional levels.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
You manage things, you lead people.
— Admiral Grace Hopper
No man is educated for statesmanship who cannot see his time from the perspective of the past.
— Will Durant
True leadership is not defined by notoriety, power, prestige, status, or job title.
— Angie  Morgan, Leading From the Front: No-Excuse Leadership Tactics for Women
Selflessness is the highest goal of good leaders.
— Todd Stocker, Becoming The Fulfilled Leader
Just imagine the strides Africa would have made if all the resources being channeled towards conflict resolution were going into construction of power generation plants and irrigation capacity. Can’t we promote our own peace? What are we doing to seriously focus on other eco-friendly energy sources like wind and solar?
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
It's not only the politician that can govern and lead a nation
— Goitsemang Mvula
Creating the right mind-set and a positive attitude today, will help you to start crafting a clear plan of how you intend to make your life a success.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
A leadership comfort zone brings stagnancy, deprives one of innovation, stifles growth and frustrates both the leader and the team they lead. Your personal preferences like leadership style, communication style, prejudices, habits and mannerisms must be effectively managed so that they do not work against you. You have to be careful that your strengths do not end up becoming a hindering comfort zone. Seek to lead, driven by a cause.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Realise your Stewardship role as a parent – you raise children to offer a quality gift to society. Even your spouse should not be treated as an object or possession you own; support them to be the best of what they were created to be. Do your part and trust God for the rest. If you have empowered them, trust them to be responsible.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Empower your children - Allow self-discovery and self-awareness (their own key to success), Facilitate an environment for learning through experience (practice of knowledge acquired). Remember, this exploration will take place whether you approve or not – it’s inevitable, that’s why YOU MUST be in charge of providing awareness and exposure to improve the quality of decisions made during exploration and experimentation.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Having a succession and legacy plan in place will make you ready for forced changes due to circumstances beyond your control, like death, any form of incapacity, sudden changes in laws and regulations and even corporate scandals and moral failure.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Passing the baton - Oh what a challenge this has proven to be in many societies, families, businesses, governments, religious organizations and obviously in every other relay race! Why do this? - for starters, you will not live forever – how about that? After a given mileage, even a car will need new tyres!
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Leadership success means your mission and vision must outlive you, but this will not happen by accident. We have enough stories around us to prove that lasting legacies have to be well managed, planned and structured for continuity. If not, you will carry your name, success and influence to the grave, only leaving short-lived memories of your achievements and impact.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Start planning from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
When you have pictured and defined your desired legacy, allow your present life activities and efforts to begin reflecting the future you desire. Begin to do what you want to see, become involved in the causes you want to be a part of. Show your legatees how you want and expect things to be done after you are gone. This will enable them to fit the vision into their own as they make their own individual unique mark.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
A leader, who divides his own people, contaminates his platform and begins to destroy his own territory.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Consider your will to be the vision of your influence on earth after you cease to be a part of it. Crafting a lasting legacy means you start planning and making it possible now.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Release children as part of your delegated leadership influence - this will enable you to leave a legacy worth noting. Realise the risk in delegation and bestowing this trust - if you sacrifice a rib, you expose your heart to possible pain, hurt or pride, fulfilment and joy. When these come – it’s not the end of the world, be brave enough to face the challenge with a positive attitude.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
There are batons that you will obviously choose to pass on, upon your death, but there are others that would be advisable you pass on whilst you are still alive. Implement as practicable as possible, all succession elements that can be done whilst you are still alive so that you can ensure they are done according to your will/desire.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Do not do everything for your children – teach them personal responsibility and accountability. This includes using your home environment – the kitchen, the garden, making their room/bed, chores – as training platforms. Prepare them to be independent.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Open the door for communication and interact with your children. Provide the answers (if you don’t know, look for them or get expert advice). Guide them on how to deal with other sources of information – friends, TV, other media, society or the internet. Coaching empowers them to make their own informed, quality decisions.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Timing is a critical issue when it comes to succession. Passing the baton too early or too late could both cause irreparable damage. The timing just has to be right, but again you are responsible for creating or influencing the right conditions over the course of your leadership tenure.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Teach faith as a non-negotiable - What should your family be aware of? Why should they be aware of these things? How will they become aware? When and at what stages must they become aware?
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
It’s about teamwork, realizing we are on the same side and complementing each other. The family is at its best when exposed to and engaged in high-quality environments, interactions, and relationships. This is not technological or economic quality – it is leadership and effectiveness quality. Children mature best when the adults in their life work in partnership with one another. There must exist important aligning of mission, beliefs, values and behaviours within the family unit.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
A leader must produce other leaders. Why do you want to produce followers, when by being called a leader the assumption is that you already have followers? Influence those who follow to birth their kind and develop others to lead.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Begin to invest in productive capacity, and the ability to see people flying or shining on the platform you have set for them in support of your vision. You need to draw the best out of them so that the reach and impact of your vision becomes phenomenal. See them as your extension, the multiplication of the tentacles of your vision and mission – sometimes when they shine, they are not trying to replace you at all, they are trying to be a “little you” somewhere you cannot be, as you focus on other key strategic issues elsewhere.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Alignment of vision, mission, values and attitudes need to be matched between you and those you choose to surround yourself with. The cost of training or replacing will be very minimal and less painful if recruitment, selection and positioning are done well. This applies even to general employment processes, whether at leadership or staff levels.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things.
— Will Durant
At leadership levels, consider choosing your managers as much as the role. Your success is closely linked to how you manage this relationship strategically!
— Anuranjita Kumar, Can I have it all?
It is the challenge for every leader to develop and invest in those he depends on, to ensure his or her vision is realized in the way it has been put upon the leader’s heart. These key people will enhance the success or taint the leadership image and brand of the visionary.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
You choose the leaders and place them strategically around the table of your vision and mission. They are already around you because of some degree of loyalty, so if you continue putting 80% effort in enhancing loyalty that already exists, you will end up going into overkill and igniting a toxic level of internal office politics that was not originally existent in your organisation.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Change in leadership brands must be influenced and proactively effected at a personal level, it can never be forced from outside with sustainable effectiveness. Saddam Hussein, Muammar al Gaddafi and Hosni Mubarak are all political trophies, yet the effects of the military or “civil” initiatives that toppled them, are nothing to be proud of considering what continues to happen in countries like Iraq, Libya, Egypt and Syria, after the use of force to bring political change.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
The African Challenge - We must end conflict in Africa. We must lead to allow the Africans to enjoy the benefits from their natural resources. We must end poverty in Africa. Every African must be educated, have access to health care and a fair chance to fulfil their dream. Preventable sickness and disease must not reduce life expectancy or rob pregnant women of a chance to continue living. Africa must develop. Africa must not depend on foreign aid. Africa must be united and governed more effectively. Africa must customize her leadership culture and philosophy in a way that gives her global relevance and respect but still remain true and authentic to herself. Will you accept the challenge? Will you be that Africa?
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
If in this generation, you still consider yourself the only one who knows or who has the capacity to make a difference, it’s a shame because you are delaying this leadership excellence train from reaching its destination. Make a decision to change your leadership philosophy and agenda today!
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Every leader must be challenged to educate their followers and capacitate them with knowledge, tools and a voice to champion their own causes and become actively involved in setting the agenda for citizen participation in social transformation. Don’t create a dependent constituency; develop and lead other leaders who demonstrate a growing personal responsibility for their own success as well as for those around them.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
The lack of knowledge on the part of followers perpetuates a culture of abuse by bad leadership. Every day, issues are being endorsed in the name of standing for the ignorant masses, only to benefit those who sponsor the agendas. Priorities are set and resources allocated, never to benefit or reach those cited as the underlying justification for sourcing the funds or setting the priorities.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
— Pablo Picasso
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
— Anaïs Nin
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
— Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
— Pablo Picasso
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
— Edgar Degas
What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
— Karl Lagerfeld
Creativity takes courage. 
— Henri Matisse
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
— Oscar Wilde
One eye sees, the other feels.
— Paul Klee
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone
— Pablo Picasso
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
— Ansel Adams
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
— Ansel Adams
The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.
— Lester Bangs
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
— Pablo Picasso
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun
— Pablo Picasso
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
— Leonardo da Vinci
A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.
— Diane Arbus
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
— John Lennon
The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.
— Pablo Picasso
Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.
— Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.
— Lady Gaga
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.
— Martha Graham
Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.
— Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.
— Hannah Harrington, Saving June
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
— J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
— Anton Chekhov
You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid.You explore every avenue and possibility of your situationat high speed with total clarity.
— Banksy, Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall
Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
— Leonardo da Vinci
Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
— Ansel Adams
He who works with his hands is a laborer.He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.
— Francis of Assisi
Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.
— Ossie Davis
The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.
— Mikhail Bakunin
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
— Leonardo da Vinci
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. ... No artist is pleased. [There is] no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others
— Martha Graham
You use a glass mirror to see your face
—  you use works of art to see your soul.
Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
— Toni Morrison, Sula
Art is what you can get away with.
— Andy Warhol
Imagination governs the world.
— Napoléon Bonaparte
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
— G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
— Confucius, The Book of Rites
life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one
— Stella Adler
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.
— James     Baldwin
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
— Walt Whitman
It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down....
— Kate Morton, The House at Riverton
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
— Ansel Adams
Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
— Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. 
— Susan Sontag
If you know the why, you can live any how.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
— Émile Zola
You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Choice
What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
— Pablo Picasso
All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.
— Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy
The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following instructions, meeting spec, and being managed.Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.The job might be difficult, it might require skill, but it's a job.Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.I call the process of doing your art 'the work.' It's possible to have a job and do the work, too. In fact, that's how you become a linchpin.The job is not the work.
— Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.
— Billy Joel
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness 
— Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Earth from Above
Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.
— Frank Zappa
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
— Pablo Picasso
Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . . 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.
— Claude Monet
Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
— John Paul II
Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. … It is a kind of talent in itself, to be an audience, whether you are the spectator in the gallery or you are listening to the voice of the world's greatest soprano. Not everyone can be the artist. There have to be those who witness the art, who love and appreciate what they have been privileged to see.
— Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology
— Noam Chomsky
After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.
— David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. 
— Allen Ginsberg
Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
— Marcel Duchamp
I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities.
— Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
— George Bernard Shaw
The more you love,the more love you have to give.It's the only feeling we have which is infinite...
— Christina Westover, Precipice
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle.
— Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
the way to create art is to burn and destroyordinary concepts and to substitute themwith new truths that run down from the top of the headand out of the heart
— Charles Bukowski
Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.
— Andy Warhol
Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.
— Raymond Chandler
Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer, but the only real requirement is the ability to remember the story of every scar.Art consists of the persistence of memory.
— Stephen King, Misery
Creativity is an act of defiance.
— Twyla Tharp
The criminal is the creative artist
—  the detective only the critic.
I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.
— Andy Warhol
The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.
— Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
— Charles Baudelaire
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
— Henry James, The Middle Years
Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that's how I felt about drawing.
— Meg Cabot, All-American Girl
There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
— Marie Antoinette
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
— Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.
— Nan Goldin
It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.
— Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
— Banksy, Wall and Piece
How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?
— Virginia Woolf
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart..
— Pablo Casals
I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.
— David Lynch
Talent is cheap
—  dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all.
— Anneli Rufus, Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
— Henry Ward Beecher
...as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.
— Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.
— C.G. Jung
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays
To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarates, the performing arts (such as acting and dance) entertain. Literature, however, retreats from life by turning in into slumber. The other arts make no such retreat— some because they use visible and hence vital formulas, others because they live from human life itself. This isn't the case with literature. Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, a play is a novel without narration. A poem is the expression of ideas or feelings a language no one uses, because no one talks in verse.
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
If your heart is broken, make art with the pi
— Shane L. Koyczan
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
— Pablo Picasso
Music gives color to the air of the moment.
— Karl Lagerfeld
i am a museum full of artbut you had your eyes shut
— Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.
— Orson Welles
Art is what we call...the thing an artist does.It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human.Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.
— Seth Godin
When Van Gogh was a young man in his early twenties, he was in London studying to be a clergyman. He had no thought of being an artist at all. he sat in his cheap little room writing a letter to his younger brother in Holland, whom he loved very much. He looked out his window at a watery twilight, a thin lampost, a star, and he said in his letter something like this: "it is so beautiful I must show you how it looks." And then on his cheap ruled note paper, he made the most beautiful, tender, little drawing of it. When I read this letter of Van Gogh's it comforted me very much and seemed to throw a clear light on the whole road of Art. Before, I thought that to produce a work of painting or literature, you scowled and thought long and ponderously and weighed everything solemnly and learned everything that all artists had ever done aforetime, and what their influences and schools were, and you were extremely careful about *design* and *balance* and getting *interesting planes* into your painting, and avoided, with the most astringent severity, showing the faintest *acedemical* tendency, and were strictly modern. And so on and so on.But the moment I read Van Gogh's letter I knew what art was, and the creative impulse. It is a feeling of love and enthusiasm for something, and in a direct, simple, passionate and true way, you try to show this beauty in things to others, by drawing it.And Van Gogh's little drawing on the cheap note paper was a work of art because he loved the sky and the frail lamppost against it so seriously that he made the drawing with the most exquisite conscientiousness and care. 
— Brenda Ueland, If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies
— Kate Chopin, The Awakening and Selected Stories
The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.
— André Breton
People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly.
— Banksy, Wall and Piece
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.
— Ansel Adams
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.
— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
— Claude Monet
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
— Pablo Picasso
By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.
— Christian Dior
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
— Pablo Picasso
A line is a dot that went for a walk.
— Paul Klee
If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings.
— Jack Kerouac
Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist--a master--and that is what Auguste Rodin was--can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is . . . and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be . . . and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body.
— Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
— Oscar Wilde
I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t. If you are moved by it, you don’t need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it.
— Federico Fellini
I love you beyond paint, beyond melodies, beyond words. And I hope you will always feel that, even when I'm not around to tell you so.
— Kiera Cass, The One
The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.
— Andy Warhol
The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.
— Stephen King, Bag of Bones
Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat on the back to an artist now could one day result in your favorite film, or the cartoon you love to get stoned watching, or the song that saves your life. Discourage an artist, you get absolutely nothing in return, ever.
— Kevin Smith, Tough Shit: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good
Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.
— Erich Fromm
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
— Edmond de Goncourt
A poor original is better than a good imitation.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values....
— Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself- life hurrying past us and running away, to strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
— Willa Cather
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
— E.M. Forster
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life. 
— Federico Fellini
Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons
Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.
— D.W. Winnicott
If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
— Barbara Kingsolver
In art as in love, instinct is enough. 
— Anatole France
Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.
— Karl Lagerfeld
People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
— Salvador Dalí
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had no words for.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
Whoever uses the spirit that isin him creatively is an artist. Tomake living itself an art, that isthe goal.
— Henry Miller
Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.
— Robert Henri
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
— Toni Morrison
I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.
— Jonathan Lethem, You Don't Love Me Yet
Art is either revolution or plagiarism
— Paul Gauguin
[…] Everyone tries to make his life a work of art. We want love to last and we know that it does not last; even if, by some miracle, it were to last a whole lifetime, it would still be incomplete. Perhaps, in this insatiable need for perpetuation, we should better understand human suffering, if we knew that it was eternal. It appears that great minds are, sometimes, less horrified by suffering than by the fact that it does not endure. In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day. One morning, after many dark nights of despair, an irrepressible longing to live will announce to us the fact that all is finished and that suffering has no more meaning than happiness.
— Albert Camus, The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.
— Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.
— Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. 
— Vladimir Nabokov
A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into.
— Ansel Adams