"You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen.. ...when you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things."

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Source : "Artists Talks 1969 - 1977". Book edited by Peggy Gale, 2004.

Carl Andre

#Art Quotes #People Quotes #Creative Quotes

“Anyone who wishes to learn how to play chess well must make himself or herself thoroughly conversant with the play in positions where the players have castled on opposite sides.”

Source : Paul Keres, Alexander Kotov (2012). “The Art of the Middle Game”, p.51, Courier Corporation
“How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light.”
“The creatives are rarely professional and the professionals are rarely creative.”
“The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him December's as pleasant as May.”
“There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.”
“That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.”
“When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.”
“If you're going to be called a musicianship, you have to be able to play.”

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