Quotes about Persistence

When I see how several painters I know here are struggling with their watercolours and paintings so that they can't see a solution anymore, I sometimes think: Friend, the fault is in your drawing. I don't regret for a moment that I did not go in for watercolour and oil painting straight away. I am sure I will catch up if only I struggle on, so that my hand does not waver in drawing and perspective.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed

exchanging pictures with other artists. In one word, with much energy, with a sincere personal feeling of colour in nature I would say an artist can get on here notwithstanding the many obstructions. And I intend remaining here still longer.

If you hear a voice within you say ,you cannot paint,' then by all means paint. And that voice will be silenced.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

As long as I try, there's always a chance of getting up. It's not the end until you give up.

You can't lose confidence in yourself, or you've lost already. When you get knocked down, you've got to keep getting back up.

You do not need to let anything get you down, but if you are down you certainly need not let anything keep you down.

When you want something badly enough, you will develop the confidence and the ability to overcome any obstacle in your way.

Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.

Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed

Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.