"A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in town, which is not. He may do you that honour."

-- Walter J. Phillips

#Teacher Quotes #School Quotes #Artist Quotes

“I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch.”
“A mathematician who can only generalise is like a monkey who can only climb up a tree, and a mathematician who can only specialise is like a monkey who can only climb down a tree. In fact neither the up monkey nor the down monkey is a viable creature. A real monkey must find food and escape his enemies and so must be able to incessantly climb up and down. A real mathematician must be able to generalise and specialise.”
“I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.”
“In the knockout tournaments, it's futile to prepare for a grand finale. You may have worked out many strategies for the final. But you may lose in the first round itself.”
“The 'clean energy' challenge deserves a commitment akin to the Manhattan project or the Apollo moon landing.”
“This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher.”
“The best artists know what to leave out.”
“No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He was a man whose significance in the Greater Scheme of Things could be figured along familiar ratios: Pebble : Beach Raindrop : Ocean Needle : Haystack”

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