"Don't wait for permission to do something creative."

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Ava DuVernay

#Creativity Quotes #Creative Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“Damien Hirst's Mother and Child Divided (1993) is a work which can at first glance be read as nothing more than two brutally severed carcasses. "A freak show" was how the art critic of the Sunday Telegraph responded to its presentation in the Turner Prize in 1995. For me, the undoubted shock, even disgust provoked by the work is part of its appeal. Art should be transgressive. Life is not all sweet.”

Source : "Who's Afraid of Modern Art?". The Dimbleby Lecture, 2000.
“I don't drop players. I make changes.”
“What Kuwait did to the Palestinian people is worse than what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the occupied territories.”
“In Washington, 'delay' is too often code for 'derail.' Wink, wink.”
“Let's face it, it's only called Scrubs because I'm saving 'Zach Braff' for my autobiography.”
“Though painting borrows help indeed from colours... it has nothing more wide of its real aim or more remote from its intention than to make a show of colours... to raise a separate and flattering pleasure to the sense.”
“I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent.”
“A newspaper is the center of a community, it's one of the tent poles of the community, and that's not going to be replaced by Web sites and blogs.”

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