Famous quotes containing the word undertake:
“Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist’s work. The meaning of art in our time flows from this function of self-creation. Art is the laboratory for making new men.”
—Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978)
“There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“If you can’t distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn’t undertake philanthropic work.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)