"There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without it."

-- John French Sloan

#Drawing Quotes #Texture Quotes #Chance Quotes

“In this there is no measuring with time, a year doesnâ€™t matter, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesnâ€™t force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come. But it comes only to those who are patient, who are there as if eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly silent and vast. I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!”
“Religion urges us to fight evil as contrary to the Divine Law. It urges us to combat abject misery, sin and disease because God is. In His name we can work, as we believe in co-operation with Him, since through Him goodness must ultimately prevail.”
“Saying yes, opening up, and loving: these are the keys that will unlock the prison door.”
“Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort on the part of a bunch of people trying to think alike.”
“Something I tried to hold onto, to touch if only for a moment, but it slipped away from me like the air, like an illusion, or a dream that floats away and is lost. I wept in my sleep as though it was something I was losing now; a loss I was experiencing for the first time, and not something I had lost a long time ago.”
“To be making something as yet unformed, unknown - to be living in a deferred moment - is the most seductive way to exist.”
“Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.”
“There’s no competitive advantage in being just like everyone else.”

Source : "What Makes a Good Leader Today — And Tomorrow?" by Daniel Burrus, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2015.

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