The Art Of Grind Quotes & Sayings

Stop treating your creativity like it's a tired, old, unhappy marriage (a grind, a drag) and start regarding it with the fresh eyes of a passionate lover. Even if you have only fifteen minutes a day in a stairwell alone with your creativity, take it. Go hide in that stairwell and make out with your art. — Elizabeth Gilbert

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway. — Norman Mailer

Never accept yourself as a finished product. Be a finished product when you die. As long as you have breath in your lungs, expand yourself. — Brandi L. Bates

People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal. — Magnus Carlsen

A gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next. — John Evelyn

So if you want to have a great video game-based movie you have to keep the mood of the game, use the normal character setup - but you have to flesh out the story and provide more background for the characters. — Uwe Boll

Wheels of justice grind slow but grind fine — Sun Tzu

Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind. — Ada Louise Huxtable

He says things which need saying and which none of us have had the courage to say. This passage, where he compares Italy to a tipsy man weeping with tenderness on the neck of the thief who is picking his pocket, is splendidly written. — Ethel Lilian Voynich

Perhaps the ideal life is that of the week-end artist, who preserves the integrity of his own aesthetic ideals because of his economic independence ... If his daily grind is hateful he has his weekly solace in art. — Walter J. Phillips

I think I have changed a lot. People might feel a little unfamiliar with the new me, but this is just who I am. I realised that I just want to be free. — Taeyang

Sex, like art, can unsettle a soul, can grind a heart in a mortar. Sex, like literature, can sneak the other within one's wall, even if for only a moment, a moment before one immures oneself again. — Rabih Alameddine

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

feet, what do i need you for if i have wings to fly? — Frida Kahlo

I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football? — Art Donovan