Tracy Keenan Wynn famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.
-- Tracy Keenan Wynn

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The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.
Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.
We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
Romeo and Juliet *died*. I always liked that in a teen romance story.
I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.
Nothing good happened to Romeo or Juliet.

Tracy Keenan Wynn famous quotes

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