"My uncle, who's an art teacher, took me under his wing and gave me a really strong foundation in art. I spent summers with him, and he taught me how to draw, how to see, how to mix colors, how to use different mediums and perspective, and so forth."

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Source : "In-depth Written Interview". TeachingBooks Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. September 7, 2010.

Kadir Nelson

#Summer Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Art Quotes

“The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics.”

Source : Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”
“Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.”

Source : "Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie".
“The stock market to me was like a video game. When it went off, it was like turning the game off. It wasn't something I'd think about until I'd turn the machine on again.”
“Let your former selves teach you, but never limit or define you”
“So, your dad's hot." "Thanks. He was that way when I met him, so I can't really take credit.”
“Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them.”
“I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the hands of his daughter, and therefore I have prepared the Family Shakespeare.”
“I was overcome by the Holy Ghost one time, but in a Baptist way. I was six or seven, and I was saved. I just cried and cried. It was joy!”

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