"How to succeed? Try hard enough."

-- Malcolm Forbes

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“I came across a photograph of him not long ago... his black face, the long snout sniffing at something in the air, his tail straight and pointing, his eyes flashing in some momentary excitement. Looking at a faded photograph taken more than forty years before, even as a grown man, I would admit I still missed him.”

Source : Willie Morris (2008). “My Dog Skip”, p.3, Vintage
“This is something essential to art: reception is never its goal. What counts for me is that my work provides material to reflect upon. Reflection is an activity.”
“Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences... That solves a lot of problems ... Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen ... [W]hat makes a work of art â€˜goodâ€™ for you is not something that is already â€˜insideâ€™ it, but something that happens inside you...”
“Study and practice are both very important, but they must go hand in hand. Faith without knowledge is not sufficient. Faith needs to be supported by reason. However intellectual understanding that is not applied in practice is also of little use. Whatever we learn from study we need to apply sincerely in our daily lives.”
“You must see the persons who are in charge-persons you can punish or vote for.”
“I tend to like the most basic pieces with the perfect fit and fabric, like a simple tank.”
“No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.”
“We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.”

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