Steven Pressfield Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.

  Steven Pressfield

  Art, Selfish, Creativity

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.165, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

• The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

  Steven Pressfield

  Art, Writing, Positive Thinking

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.108, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

• The more you love your art/ calling/ enterprise, the more important its accomplishment to the evolution of your soul, the more you will fear it and the more Resistance you will experience facing it.

  Steven Pressfield

  Art, Love You, Accomplishment

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.73, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

• To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.

  Steven Pressfield

  Art, Love Is, Reason

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.151, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

• The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting
  down every day and trying. Why is this important? Because when we sit down day after
  day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen. A process is set in
  motion by which, inevitably and infallibly, heaven comes to our aid. Unseen forces enlist
  in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose.

  Steven Pressfield

  Art, Heaven, Serendipity

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.108, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

• The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.

  Steven Pressfield

  Art, Rewards, Products

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.43, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

• I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.

  Steven Pressfield

  Art, War, Two

  Steven Pressfield (2012). “Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work”, p.9, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

• When we make our art a practice, when we make our workspace sacred and enter it daily with respect and high intention, then we elevate our actions (even if they're taking place within the profane arena of commerce) beyond ego and above gimme-gimme ambition.

  Steven Pressfield

  Art, Ambition, Practice

• The instinct that pulls us toward art is the impulse to evolve, to learn, to heighten and elevate our consciousness. The Ego hates this. Because the more awake we become, the less we need the Ego.

  Steven Pressfield

  Art, Hate, Ego

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.140, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

• Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior.

  Steven Pressfield

  Art, War, Self

  "10 Questions with Steven Pressfield, Author of The War of Art". Interview with Jeff Goins, goinswriter.com. May 11, 2011.

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