"The art has to have a life of its own and not merely illustrate. I've always felt a great illustration can make a good poem even better. That's the advantage I have in illustrating my own work - I have the freedom to leap far from the poem."

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Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net

Douglas Florian

#Art Quotes #Leap Quotes

“What I have found is that even when you try to transform existing structures they are so powerful they often overwhelm, seduce, and control you.”
“People think that I don't work, and I fly around in Oprah's private plane doing whatever I want.”
“All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to exist in the world while that which made me has ceased to exist”

Source : Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company
“The irreversibility of time is the mechanism that brings order out of chaos.”
“Few questions make long friends in the hills.”

Source : Marah Ellis Ryan (1891). “Told in the Hills”, p.264, Library of Alexandria
“The menu is not the meal.”
“I don't think anybody's had the confidence that we'd ever be able to make a dent in homelessness. We've just come to accept that we manage homelessness, that we try to make it less bad, but we never make it better.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“The realization that you're not always standing down there on the field merely to win, to be successful, was very liberating. One can be successful by helping the team, the other players. All of a sudden I felt the kind of empathy for people that I hadn't felt before.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

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