"I am going to do some drawings or paintings...in the mirror of my wardrobe..with myself as a figure doing something."

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Source : Letter to François-Auguste-René Rodin, c. 1905.

Gwen John

#Mirrors Quotes #Drawing Quotes #Painting Quotes

“Confidence isn't something you prove to people, it's something that comes off from who you are and how you represent yourself.”
“What valor cannot win, flattery may.”
“I remember in school - in elementary school - I used to recite poems. We'd have to recite poems. And I would always just, like, roll on the floor, like, just make it such a huge, melodramatic portrayal of whatever it was.”

Source : "Jazz Singer Cécile McLorin Salvant Doesn't Want To Sound 'Clean And Pretty'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 1, 2016.
“When you're on stage performing stand-up, things only happen one time. I've done bits where I improv a joke, and people are dying. The next show, I try to repeat it, I can't do it. Because with the first audience that was our moment. It can't happen the same way again. We were all there: a certain type of people were at that show and we all got it.”
“If you still have to ask, shame on you”
“If I can't find a theme, I can't make a film anyone else will feel. I can't laugh at intellectual humor. I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart...”
“[To] turn poet, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.”
“If I want to have a conversation, I can't have a list of questions, because the second question on the list is going to interrupt the conversation.”

Source : Interview with Sarah Fay, believermag.com. June 1, 2010.

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