"The way I grew up, I had a lot of personal issues with art. It's an individual thing, but I also think it's kind of Midwestern: You do your thing, but you don't talk about it. You make sure it's not such a big deal, and keep it very low-key."

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John Porcellino

#Art Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Kind Quotes

“Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir.”
“Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.”
“The lens we choose transforms the way we look at things.”
“Mathematics is not something that you find lying around in your back yard. It's produced by the human mind. Yet if we ask where mathematics works best, it is in areas like particle physics and astrophysics, areas of fundamental science that are very, very far removed from everyday affairs.”
“When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.”
“Champagne is the only wine that enhances a woman's beauty.”
“Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that, if they could, would work with the same minute attention on the back of their canvas.”
“I see parallels between Karachi and the cities that I was familiar with: a very different place, but in terms of its human stories not really very different at all. That was what excited me about the place - that it was so complex, as difficult to me as an outsider and yet so human in a way that was ultimately very familiar.”

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