"My son's a painter. All through school his teachers tell him he's a genius. I tell him to paint me an apple that looks like an apple before he paints me one that doesn't. Go where you can go, but start from someplace recognizable."

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Source : Charles Mingus' statement in Mainliner Magazine (July 1977); later quoted in Olivia Bertagnolli "Creativity and the writing process" (p. 182), 1982.

Charles Mingus

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“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment, we need oxygen and a candle to help. In this case, the oxygen, for example, would come from the breath of the person you love; the candle could be any kind of food, music, caress, word, or sound that engenders the explosion that lights one of the matches.”
“Negatively correlated assets tend to work in harmony in a way that people are generally not used to seeing.”
“The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done.”

Source : Berton Braley, “Opportunity”
“Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.”
“I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever ask for permission from anybody.”
“The memory of the aged becomes clearer and clearer with time. It has no pity.”

Source : Andrea Camilleri (2010). “The Terracotta Dog”, p.181, Pan Macmillan
“When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.”
“Purely by hard work, one can become an artist.”

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