"Anyone can take pictures. What's difficult is thinking about them, organizing them, and trying to use them in some way so that some meaning can be constructed out of them. That's really where the work of the artist begins."

-- Lewis Baltz

#Artist Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes

“When I'm 70 I might be a man in a park just wandering around, speaking in tongues with kids throwing bread at me.”
“The trick is to realize that one is not important, except insofar as oneâ€™s example can serve to elucidate a more widespread human trait and make readers feel a little less lonely and freakish.”
“As I loosen my grip on the past, as I keep taking one small step after another in the direction I want to go, I discover I'm being supported and guided after all, and that as soon as I'm willing to embrace change, something or someone comes along and shows me how. Â Magic wasn't something I had to go in search of; it was here within me, all the time. When hearts are open, when love is flowing, magic happens.”

Source : Katrina Kenison (2013). “Magical Journey: An Apprenticeship in Contentment”, p.153, Hachette UK
“Surround yourself with what you love.”
“It's always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem.”
“Im the youngest of four, but my closest sibling is 10 years older. I had a lot of imagination. I was running around playing little games by myself. But I never thought I was going to be an actor.”
“Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin.”

Source : Werner Schmalenbach, Paul Klee, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany) (1986). “Paul Klee: the Düsseldorf collection”, Prestel Pub
“It is no good saying we [journalists] must report only what is true because what is true cannot always be proven.”

Source : 2004 In the Sunday Times, 8 Feb.

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