"When I was teaching I often said to students that you are trying to be too creative, don't be too creative, because there is so much already in what you are making, you don't need to do very much. You just need to do a little bit, and that is a lot."

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Source : Source: www.artzip.org

Michael Craig-Martin

#Teaching Quotes #Creative Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I started in theater, and I love to go back to theater, just to have the experience and recharge my batteries, creatively.”
“I don't know of any science writing going on in women's magazines, unless you count medical stories about things like breast cancer. I still think there's a huge problem about how we can actively engage a wider range of women. I'm not saying women must be a separate audience - I'm just responding to the reality that the majority of people who do read science magazines are male. That's not a value judgment; it's a statistical fact.”
“One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all.”

Source : Patricia Wentworth (2006). “Poison in the Pen”, p.93, Hachette UK
“That good diffused may more abundant grow.”
“When the starry sky, a vista of open seas, or a stained-glass window shedding purple beams fascinate me, there is a cluster of meaning, of colors, of words, of caresses, there are light touches, scents, sighs, cadences that arise, shroud me, carry me away, and sweep me beyond the things I see, hear, or think, The "sublime" object dissolves in the raptures of a bottomless memory. It is such a memory, which, from stopping point to stopping point, remembrance to remembrance, love to love, transfers that object to the refulgent point of the dazzlement in which I stray in order to be.”
“One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable to solve its problems, then declaring that freedom has failed and stronger controls are necessary.”
“I have been doing 120 miles a week, when normally I would do about 140.”
“Without Elvis none of us could have made it.”

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