"If you are any kind of an artist, then validation . . . can be a result, but you're going to do the work anyway."

-- David Sedaris

#Artist Quotes #Validation Quotes #Kind Quotes

“The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.”

Source : Wassily Kandinsky (1914). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.54, Courier Corporation
“He's (George Steinbrenner) the one who gave me a chance to get to the World Series. This is where I wanted to be all along. We had a couple of nice offers from other teams, but I tied my agents' hands. I told them I wanted to be a Yankee.”
“Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.”
“So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.”
“Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness. This happiness is the simplest and least costly kind, and it cannot be purchased with money. But it can be increased if we do two things: if we recognize and uphold the essential values of family life and if we get and keep control of the process of social change so as to make it give us what is needed to make family life perform its essential functions.”
“It was quite unusual to use the recorder as a concert instrument. But my mother, a pianist, actually helped me a lot by assuming that anything done on the piano can easily be done on the recorder! She helped me with technique and was just as critical about my playing as she was with her own. I think that has been one of my fortunes.”
“Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.”

Source : James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.166, Delphi Classics
“If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.”

Source : Alice Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell (1899). “The Spirit of Place, and Other Essays”

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