"The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having."

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Source : Michael Kimmelman (2005). “The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa”, Penguin Press HC

Michael Kimmelman

#Art Quotes #Form Quotes #Consolation Quotes

“Not everyone deserves to be a musician, you get lucky enough to be one.”
“One does not play the piano with one's fingers, one plays the piano with one's mind.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Even if I could not earn a penny from my writing, I would earn my livelihood at something else and continue to write at night.”
“I feel like so many people get into that place where creating for someone else is selling out and it is so not about that. It is a stupid, kind of pretentious way of thinking.”
“It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.”
“And I don't think you'd have to kill -- assassinate -- too many vivisectors before you would see a marked decrease in the amount of vivisection going on. And I think for 5 lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, 2 million, 10 million non-human animals.”
“When a miner looks at the rope that is to lower him into the deep mine, he may coolly say, "I have faith in that rope as well made and strong." But when he lays hold of it, and swings down by it into the tremendous chasm, then he is believing on the rope. Then he is trusting himself to the rope. It is not a mere opinion--it is an act. The miner lets go of every thing else, and bears his whole weight on those well braided strands of hemp. Now that is faith.”
“One may gain attention by wearing a fools cap. But he would ruin his selling prospects”

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