"With any medium you are working in, technical skills obviously help, but your mind is what you really need to expand. That is how you create work. That's the role of the artist - to change the way you view things."

-- Petra Collins

#Artist Quotes #Views Quotes #Skills Quotes

“As we Wizards go, I'm pretty harmless.”
“My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the Portuguese, who I occasionally mention as Cape dwellers, are obviously drawn from the city types one sees in everyday life.”
“When an English man speaks well, for example now, and this is another way of putting us down, they say he's "eloquent" you see. "Oh, eloquent chap they are!" An Irish person speak well, they say, "Ah, you have the gift of the gab." "Ah, you kissed the blarney stone." You see, all of this putting us down.”
“They fix attention, heedless of your pain, With oaths like rivets forced into the brain; And e'en when sober truth prevails throughout, They swear it, till affirmance breeds a doubt.”
“I've had so many critics over the past couple of months. I've had so many people who said I'm too old for this, I am burnt out. But, you know what, I am so hungry to make a career for myself. I was able to turn all this negativity into something positive.”

Source : "Ashley Wagner shatters records for third U.S. figure skating title" by Nick Zaccardi, olympics.nbcsports.com. January 24, 2015.
“You can see over time whether people are prepared to differ or not.”
“I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren't just straightforward and nice.”
“...throughout the history of art it has been art itself - in all its forms - that has inspired art...today's photographs are so geared to life that one can learn more from them than from life itself.”

You may also like:

Aaron Rose
Film director
Amandla Stenberg
Actress
Nan Goldin
Photographer
Ryan McGinley
Photographer
Sky Ferreira
Singer-songwriter
Tavi Gevinson
Writer
Hari Nef
Olivier Zahm
Fashion and Beauty Editor
Richard Kern
Filmmaker