"There are many prejudices about art, and first among them is that it is a skill and that there are definite rules."

-- Wolf Kahn

#Art Quotes #Skills Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods. Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.”
“Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it's the ones in the middle that are really the lucky stiffs.”
“When you're a little kid, growing up, most of us know what's right and wrong. Our parents teach us that discipline.”
“You can't ask a guy like me why [I performed]. I really wanted to fly through the air. I was a daredevil, a performer. I loved the thrill, the money, the whole macho thing. All those things made me Evel Knievel. Sure, I was scared. You gotta be an ***** not to be scared. But I beat the hell out of death.”
“What sets these - and all - racers apart from less daredevilish mortals is their complete lack of fear and their joy of doing something on the edge. They love to speed because it is dangerous.”
“It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, and immersion in the waters of reality, an unending re-creation.”
“Until you have looked in depth at the system and found out where women in Egypt are not being cut through female genital mutilation, or where kids in Vietnam are not malnourished, or where hospitals in America are getting rid of the superbugs anyway - unless you have that level of curiosity about what's going on without you, you will always come in with your great new recipe and just ignore what's going on, and that will make you much less effective at what you're trying to achieve.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“What you create doesnâ€™t have to be perfect. So what if the eggs are greasy or the toast is burned? Donâ€™t let fear of failure discourage you.”

You may also like:

Ada Louise Huxtable
Architectural Critic
Cynthia Ozick
Writer
Hans Hofmann
Painter
Helen Frankenthaler
Painter
Joan Mitchell
Painter
John Updike
Novelist
Louis Auchincloss
Lawyer
Milton Avery
Painter
Norman Mailer
Novelist