"My paintings and sculptures, at first glance, may appear to be purely aesthetic; closer up, they are not. They hold a feeling of tentativeness, combined with a sense of arrival."

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Budd Hopkins

#Feelings Quotes #Sculpture Quotes #May Quotes

“Australia objects to the mini-skirt not on moral but on economic grounds. Australians are no prudes and the lovely, healthy, sporty Australian girls have no reason to hide their knees and thighs. However, the mini-skirt is disastrous for the wool-trade.”
“When we're living as amateurs, we're running away from our calling - meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest selves.”
“Keep your standards high, and any guy who is worth it will rise to meet them.”
“I think when you take people who are damaged and you give them money and freedom, it can be a toxic cocktail.”
“Be clear in your mind why learning to draw well is important. Drawing enables you to see in that special, epiphanous way that artists see, no matter what style you use to express your special insight. Your goal in drawing should be to encounter the reality of experience... to see ever more clearly, ever more deeply.”

Source : Betty Edwards (1999). “The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain”, Tarcher
“It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.”
“A sacred burden is this life ye bear, Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly, Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly; Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin, But onward, upward, till the goal ye win.”
“When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete's feet don't exist, there's something wrong.”

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