"the artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it."

-- Madeleine L'Engle

#Artist Quotes #Judging Quotes

“Even if we may not always understand why God allows certain things to happen to us, we can know He is able to bring good out of evil, and triumph out of suffering.”
“Fame is a very confusing thing, because you are recognized by a lot of people that you've never seen before, and they're at a great advantage.”
“I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I understand now that this was a minority point of view.”
“If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am loveable. How can something as fragile as a word build a whole world?”

Source : Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.361, A&C Black
“I've always loved comedy and growing up it was the comedies that I really responded to. So I don't know how it turned out that once I started acting that I started getting a certain kind of role, that I never saw myself as growing up, so I really love when I get an opportunity to play a [comedian] role.”
“The great decisions of government cannot be dictated by the concerns of religious factions.... We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping the affairs of state separate from the uncompromising idealism of religious groups and we mustn't stop now. To retreat from that separation would violate the principles of conservatism and the values upon which the framers built this democratic republic.”

Source : "Excerpts From Goldwater Remarks". Remarks in the Congressional Record, www.nytimes.com. September 15, 1981.
“There was less than Iâ€™d expected in the rainy-day fund that Mom had kept in the bottom of an underwear drawer in a panty hose egg labeled â€˜DEAD SPIDERS.â€™ As if I hadnâ€™t always known it was there. As if I wouldnâ€™t want to look at dead spiders.”
“I've done it for a long time and I didn't expect it to be any different here.”

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