#work

"An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn't look for harmony but would simply live in it."

"I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it."

"Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose"

"What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come."

"There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time."

"Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation."

"The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art."

"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual."

"It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family."

"I feel robbing a bank would be the highest form of performance art. No need to pay to see me work. The Federal Reserve is subsidizing it."

"Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder."

"Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you."

"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."

"And you know, whether it's drama or comedy, the best work is based on truth. It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from. So it's not that difficult to cross over."

"What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose."

"I don't need the money, dear. I work for art."

"It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work."

"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching."

"I’m just going to keep plugging away until I find success—or an electrical socket that works. This is the secret to gaining worldly power."

"Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you; Be true to your word and your work and your friend; Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end."