"Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however rigid these may be... I see it as the clearest evidence of genius when an artist follows his conception, his idea, his principle, so unswervingly that he has this truth of his constantly in his control, never letting go of it even for the sake of his own enjoyment of his work."

-- Andrei Tarkovsky

#Letting Go Quotes #Artist Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“I'm a Self-made Woman in Every Sense of the Word”
“Who knows, my friend? Maybe the sword does have some magic. Personally, I think it's the warrior who wields it.”

Source : Brian Jacques (1986). “Redwall”, Ace Books
“I have found, beauty is the illumination of the mind.”
“I can't get it out," she said. "Just pull at it." "It hurts. It's throbbing." "Pull harder." "I can't! It's truly stuck. I need something to make it slippery. Do you have some sort of lubricant nearby?" "No." "Not anything?" "Much as it may surprise you, we've never needed lubricant in the library before now.”
“I won't let people write anything they want to about me.”
“Each thought, each action in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred.”
“When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights.”
“Super-successf ul people arenâ€™t the most gifted people in their fields. They just work, study and practice more than the competition.”

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