Dan Fox famous quotes

If you're the creative, artsy one who goes off to study painting or filmmaking, you're often seen as an outsider partly because traditionally, it has never been seen as a way to have a career.
-- Dan Fox

#Creative #Outsiders #Painting

I think that one way of diffusing an insult is to turn it around and laugh at yourself - that's a way of coping with it - and another is to just ignore it.
-- Dan Fox

#Thinking #Laughing #Insult

In Britain, class is a neurosis. You judge people from the moment they open their mouth and start speaking: what their accent represents in terms of where they were educated, what part of the country they're from, what kind of class background they have.
-- Dan Fox

#Country #Judging #People

There's a sense of knowing when to stop and take a break from things, to step back from the work you're making, and of changing things up to keep them interesting for yourself.
-- Dan Fox

#Interesting #Break

The contortions and games of identity that politicians play on themselves almost everyday is kind of extraordinary. Trump, for instance, speaks like a five-year-old in these vague generalities but then also makes out that he's an expert on everything; he's trying to have his cake and eat it. He's someone who is pretending that he's for the working person but comes from this enormously privileged background.
-- Dan Fox

#Everyday #Trying #Identity

The Sacred Bombshell knows that her creative feminine energy is a catalyst. She remembers her womb wisdom.

Creative people are more prone to depression.

Speaking of sleeping bags, has anything ever had a less creative name?

The Church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders.

I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to.

An outsider can see some things much better.

Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are usually in a poor position to fix them.

A society is a group whose members have more relationships with one another then they do with outsiders.

Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.

I found I have to stay painting.