"The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down on the paper. I have an image in mind, but the results always surprise me."

-- Willem de Kooning

#Eye Quotes #Hands Quotes #Drawing Quotes

“It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.”

Source : "Against the Grain : An Autobiography" by Boris Yeltsin, (p. 172), 1990.
“The telling of stories creates the real world.”
“Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship.”
“Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!”
“The greatest medicine is a true friend.”

Source : Sir William Temple, Jonathan Swift, Lady Martha Giffard (1740). “The life and character of Sir William Temple, written by a particular friend [his sister Lady Giffard] Observations upon the United provinces of the Netherlands. Miscellanea. Memoirs, the third part, from the peace concluded 1679 to the time of the author's retirement from publick business. Memoirs of what past in Christendom from the war begun 1672, to the peace concluded 1679”, p.309
“We must expect to fail...but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.”
“Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly, in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it does. Even for me.”
“Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with Highway, there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended Highway to be the first film that I ever made. Didnt happen.”

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