"Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work."

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Billy Cannon

#Teaching Quotes #Artist Quotes #Self Quotes

“Its such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, Im going to really work hard for it and give it and its just going to matter to people. You really have to believe it all on your own.”
“Trees sprout up just about everywhere in computer science...”
“When I was first going through my separation, someone said to me, 'It will take you half as long as you were in the relationship before you'll feel better.' And I wanted to knock them out cold across the table. Because, of course, I was in agony. And the last thing I wanted to think was that I was going to stay that way for a long time.”
“Pluck not the wayside flower; It is the traveler's dower.”

Source : William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”
“Democrats and Republicans were essentially the same party with different faces and that was why, no matter how many promises each leader made, significant change rarely transpired.”
“One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.”
“Love is a kind of warfare.”
“Ah, Evelyn and Vivian, I love you both, I love you for your sad lives, the empty misery of your coming home at dawn. You too are alone, but you are not like Arturo Bandini, who is neither fish, fowl nor good red herring. So have your champagne, because I love you both, and you too, Vivian, even if your mouth looks like it had been dug out with raw fingernails and your old child's eyes swim in blood written like mad sonnets.”

Source : John Fante (2002). “Ask The Dust”, p.89, Canongate Books

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