"The precision of their goals allows conceptual artists to be satisfied that they have produced one or more works that achieve a particular purpose... a problem solved can free him to pursue new goals."

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Source : David W. Galenson (2011). “Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity”, p.5, Princeton University Press

David Galenson

#Artist Quotes #Goal Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“I cannot even imagine college. I'm white-knuckling it just letting my son go to kindergarten for eight hours a day.”
“Complete equality isn't compatible with democracy, but it is a agreeable to tolitarianism. After all the only way to ensure the equality of the slothful, the inept and the immoral is to suppress everyone else.”
“There are some who question the scale of our ambitions, who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short, for they have forgotten what this country has already done, what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage.”

Source : "India Space Programs and Exploration Handbook". USA International Business Publications, 2007.
“I've been the saddest while I've been the most successful, strangely.”
“It's true my father abused me and didn't love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.”
“Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.”
“They (theological liberals)seemed to know what the answer was supposed to be and weren't much concerned with how to get there. They knew only that whatever answers the Fundamentalists came up with must be wrong.”
“You see, insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.”

Source : Arsenic and Old Lace act 2 (1941)

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