"Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem."

-- Elliott Carter

#Writing Quotes #Challenges Quotes #Orchestra Quotes

“The effort of painting from life has cost my models a great deal of physical discomfort, and cost me a great deal of money in model fees... I have wanted to make the camera obsolete... because, in my reading about early 20th century art, I found that the most frequently used argument made in favor of abstraction was that the camera made realist painting obsolete.”
“Where you point the camera is the question and the picture you get is the answer to decipher.”
“It is too disgusting to contemplate that a handful of men keep millions of women from being constitutional citizens of this land.”
“People ask me about all sorts of sounds. There's a sound of a screeching toy or a rubber duck and everybody asks me about that, but it was an absolutely random thing, just a cool sound.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“You don't need a new life, just a new lens through which to view the one you have.”

Source : FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Feb 28, 2013
“My face hasn't matured as I've grown up, and neither has my sense of humour. In the mirror, I see an older version of myself as a child, although I do have more wrinkles and freckles.”

Source : "What I see in the mirror" by Jasmine Guinness, www.theguardian.com. January 05, 2008.
“To make a collaboration succeed there can be no visible contusions or abrasions. For the collaboration to succeed, the relationship must be nourished and survive. That is absolutely essential for a collaboration to succeed.”
“There's always a faster gun.”

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