"To find one's way anywhere one has to find one's door, just like Alice, you see. You take too much of one thing and you get too big, then you take too much of another and you get too small. You've got to find your own doorway into things..."

-- Paula Rego

#Discovery Quotes #Doors Quotes #Doorways Quotes

“Such sorrow— The cry of true compassion Sinks into my hard ego.”
“The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it too.”
“We will ultimately live in a perpetual data-driven talent edition. Everything you create will be measured and tracked by others through comments, share, and likes. Your work will come up on the radar of potential employers and clients, and the data will tell them if you are worth talking to or hiring.”
“When American producers see my film, they think that I had a big budget to do it, like 23 million. But in fact I had 10 percent of that budget. I did Mars et Avril for only 2.3 million.”
“In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up.”
“I ascend from darkness And depart on the winds of space for I know not where; My watch is wound, a key is in my pocket, And the sky is darkened as I descend the stair.”

Source : Conrad Aiken (1961). “Selected Poems”, p.23, Oxford University Press on Demand
“Every athlete acquires routines as a way to help control nerves.”
“Optimism is the foundation of courage.”

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