Deborah Solomon famous quotes

If you love everything you do, you will probably end up with mediocre work. I think dissatisfaction with the state of things does propel creative people forward.
-- Deborah Solomon

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Most artists probably feel lonely or set apart in childhood. But they grow up and find people who share their interests.
-- Deborah Solomon

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When you look at a work of art, you don't see a cover for something else; you see revelation. If you're an artist, art is the truest expression of yourself. Even if you're painting a life you don't have.
-- Deborah Solomon

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Art never lies, I believe.
-- Deborah Solomon

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The pleasure that attaches to the artistic life comes in imagining what we might do as opposed to acknowledging what we have done.
-- Deborah Solomon

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You have to be willing to recognize failure.
-- Deborah Solomon

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If I were writing about Picasso and pointed out that he painted women because he was interested in the female form, that would seem like an obvious point. I don't know why people revolt when I point out that Rockwell painted the male figure and was interested in it.
-- Deborah Solomon

#Writing #People #Female

When you feel your book is the height of irrelevance you can return to the excitement of the daily news.
-- Deborah Solomon

#Book #Excitement

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.

Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.

Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is

Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.