"After high school I went to the San Francisco Art Institute, and I began a formalized art education where we went through the history of art but we also went through the art of my contemporaries."

-- Kehinde Wiley

#Art Quotes #School Quotes #San Francisco Quotes

“People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.”
“An amicable divorce is like a ventilated condom; it just doesn't work.”
“Nelson Mandela was in jail when I was really young, and Winnie Mandela was one of the biggest faces of the movement. In South Africa we have a common phrase - it's like a chant in the street and at rallies: "Wathint' abafazi, wathint' imbokodo." Which means, "You strike a woman, you strike a rock."”
“I spent the first half of my career learning what to put into my work, and the second half learning what to leave out.”
“The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.”

Source : "The enduring American press: texts of talks given by a panel of distinguished journalists and scholars at a symposium marking the 200th anniversary of the Hartford Courant, Hartford, Connecticut". Book by The Hartford Courant, 1964.
“If you look at the world with parted lips and a pure heart, and will the good, won't that make a true and beautiful poem? One's heart tells one that it will; and one's heart is wrong. There is no direct road to Parnassus .”
“The Norse way of speaking, no one really knew what the Vikings sounded liked, they were Norsemen. The accent is really a combination of a Scandinavian accent, maybe with a Swedish accent and an old way of speaking.”

Source : "Interview: Katheryn Winnick discusses her ‘Vikings’ shield maiden". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. March 2, 2013.
“Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table, making sure everybody's socks match, the soccer gear is ready. I admire idealists, but they're usually enabled by someone who holds the tether on their balloon, who pays the bills and sweeps up after them.”

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