"It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone of voice or a personality."

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Source : BEN SHAHN (1957). “THE SHAPE OF CONTENT”

Ben Shahn

#Teaching Quotes #Voice Quotes #Personality Quotes

“You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.”
“God reveals to His prophets that there are moral absolutes. Sin will always be sin. Disobedience to the Lordâ€™s commandments will always deprive us of His blessings. The world changes constantly and dramatically, but God, His commandments, and promised blessings do not change. They are immutable and unchanging.”
“A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.”
“I had a teacher who said something great. That was, 'Go out and collect your nos. Once you get fifty nos then you can start wondering when you can get a yes.' He said, 'It is not your job to get the job; its your job to do a consistent body of work. So, every time you go in there, just go in there and be consistent, and eventually it will get noticed and someone will hire you.'”
“Liebig was not a teacher in the ordinary sense of the word. Scientifically productive himself in an unusual degree, and rich in chemical ideas, he imparted the latter to his advanced pupils, to be put by them to experimental proof; he thus brought his pupils gradually to think for themselves, besides showing and explaining to them the methods by which chemical problems might be solved experimentally.”
“Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.”

Source : Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman”, p.360, Thomas Hardy
“Art is a place for children to learn to trust their ideas, themselves, and to explore what is possible.”
“My dream is to one day own a country house on the shore in England, have gotten married, wipe some debt off and get a few more good films.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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