"I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write."

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Source : "All-star authors add stories to illustrator's vision". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. November 11, 2011.

Chris Van Allsburg

#Art Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.”
“Rien n'est plus parfait, plus acheveÂ Â qu'un cadavre. Nothing is more perfect, more complete than a corpse.”
“I am old enough to remember what it was like when the theories of Freud first escaped from the study and the clinic, and the great game of Hunt-the Complex began, to the entertainment and alarm of a war-shattered and disillusioned world.”
“I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.”

Source : "Andie MacDowell: Taking Risks, Staying Curious, Agreeing To Disagree". HuffingtonPost Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 23, 2011.
“I've had people ask me: 'How can you make a movie about a murderer? A terrorist?' What they don't understand is that I'm in support of everyone who appears on screen. I have to be. I take the position of everyone who's on screen. I'm not judging them one way or another.”

Source : "Benicio Del Toro Storms Out of 'Che' Interview". www.foxnews.com. January 28, 2009.
“I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?”
“When hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world went to the Yukon to look for gold, the original prospectors had already claimed most of it.”

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