Marjorie Benton Cooke famous quotes

until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work.
-- Marjorie Benton Cooke

#Creativity #Artist #Phases

There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face.
-- Marjorie Benton Cooke

#Lying #Data #Faces

The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve.
-- Marjorie Benton Cooke

#Being Yourself #Eccentric #Way

creation, like vengeance, is God's. It is dangerous when man tampers with it.
-- Marjorie Benton Cooke

#Men #Vengeance #Creation

I never think over my mistakes. I just live up to them.
-- Marjorie Benton Cooke

#Mistake #Thinking #Just Live

The companionship of a secret is often corruptive to good habits, such as sleep and appetite.
-- Marjorie Benton Cooke

#Sleep #Secret #Companionship

Youth makes no compromise with life. It demands all, passionately; loses all, or wins, with anguish of spirit.
-- Marjorie Benton Cooke

#Winning #Demand #Youth

It is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity, imagination and personal computers. Above all, what you have as young people that's vitally needed to make social change, is impatience. You want it to happen now. There have to be enough people that say, ‘We want it now, in our lifetime.’ This is your moment. This is your opportunity. Be adventurists in the sense of being bold and daring. Be opportunists and seize this opportunity, this moment in history, to go out and save our country. It's your turn now.

A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankinds heritage.

After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined. For me, I think that purpose is to build bridges. Artists can do that very easily, more than politicians.

An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.

The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.

Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.

An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.

You see, Greg, my mother is going through a feline phase. Blinky is a Persian,' Hale said simply, as if that should explain everything. 'Binky has a nasty habit of shedding all over the living room furniture, you see.' Gregory Wainwright nodded as if he understood perfectly. 'And so we had to get new living room furniture, which, unfortunately, does not go with the Monet.' Kat stood there for a moment, staring into that small window of the world where someone would tire of a Monet simply because it clashed with the couch.

I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.

Publishers give you deadlines for those last phases of production that are perfectly comfortable for them. So, to whatever extent I can, I like to push those to give me a little more time, and make it so that they're as uncomfortable as I am.