Quotes on Great Work

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.

After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives.

The commentator may be excused for repeating what he has stressed in his own books and lectures, namely that "offensive" is frequently but a synonym for "unusual;" and a great work of art is of course always original, and thus by its very nature should come more or less as a shocking surprise.

All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

Whenever GOD determines to do a great work, HE first sets HIS people to pray.

Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don't get it unlocks our ability to do great work.

A great work of art is one that truly moves and inspires you. You yourself must be moved. Don't look at art with others' eyes. Don't listen to music with others' ears. You must react to art with your own feelings, your own heart and mind.

I am driven by great work and seeing people do incredible things and having a part in that.

In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or any other great work of art.

As you've probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.

Wait with patience and love and strength. If helpers are not ready now, they will come in time. Why should we be in a hurry? The real working force of all great work is in its almost unperceived beginnings.

To create great work, here's how you must spend your time:_x000D_ _x000D_ 1% Inspiration_x000D_ _x000D_ 9% Perspiration_x000D_ _x000D_ 90% Justification

Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.

Here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law and its expression in a general charter is the great work of Magna Carta; and this alone justifies the respect in which men have held it

Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a great deity. More humble and I believe true to consider him created from animals.

Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done.

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.