"I'm not pretending to be somebody who's got really limited craft skills. I just am a person who's got really limited craft skills."

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Source : "What the Hell Is David Shrigley Doing?". Interview with Tim Mcdonnell, www.motherjones.com. October 22, 2011.

David Shrigley

#Skills Quotes #Crafts Quotes #Pretending Quotes

“...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like this, seems to raise them, by successive steps of initiation, to higher and higher states of conscious intellectual being....”

Source : James Joseph Sylvester (1869). “Address to the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association, Exeter, August 19th, 1869”, p.6
“I don't have a gardener because I enjoy pulling weeds. It's hard to explain but there is something fulfilling about pulling out a weed and knowing that you got all the roots.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I began to write what I called 'rhythms' ie unrhymed pieces with no formal metrical scheme where the rhythm was created by a kind if inner chant..Later I was told I was writing 'free verse' or Vers libre.”

Source : "Collected Poems". Book by Richard Aldington, Introduction, 1929.
“My husband was getting his sea legs-rereading Joseph Conrad with a side order of C S Forester.”
“My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.”
“"Freedom, individualism, authenticity and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: Sustained success comes only when you take what's unique about you and figure out how to make it useful!"”
“I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.”
“I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.”

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