"Mel [ Bochner] held large-form meetings with students. But the stronger points came through when we had the one-on-one critiques. And that's the system that works at Yale. There's the group critiques, and then there's the one-on-one critiques that happen in studio."

-- Kehinde Wiley

#Yale Quotes #Stronger Quotes #Groups Quotes

“Be of comfort, and your heavy sorrow Part equally among us; storms divided, Abate their force, and with less rage are guided.”
“Adversity introduces a man to himself.”
“Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.”
“There is no worse sin than unbelief toward the gospel.”
“Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.”
“I wonder, now, about interrogation chambers: why do they think bright light brings the truth out of people? They should try the seduction of shadows, where you cannot watch your words hit their target.”
“Le raison avant la passion - Reason over passion.”
“Take all the Syrians, for example. They are where they need to be. They don't need saving. They are having their experiences and they're completing what they need to complete within this human element, in this complete illusion.”

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