"The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems."

-- Laura Miller

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“Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.”
“I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.”
“If you live in a squalid environment, then of course you are going to want to get out of it, you are probably going to want to get into the country, because that's what it does.”
“Fear breeds upon itself because it is a hermaphrodite capable of endless reproduction. Fear is a contagious disease, spreading from its first victim to others in the vicinity until it is powerful enough to take charge of a group, in which event it becomes panic. Fear is the afterbirth of reason and calculation. It takes time to recuperate from fear.”

Source : Ernest K. Gann (1986). “Fate is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir”, Simon & Schuster
“English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave.”
“Until we can insert a USB into our ear and download our thoughts, drawing remains the best way of getting visual information on to the page. I draw as a collagist, juxtaposing images and styles of mark-making from many sources. The world I draw is the interior landscape of my personal obsessions and of cultures I have absorbed and adapted, from Latvian folk art to Japanese screens. I lasso thoughts with a pen. I draw a stave church or someone from Hello! Magazine not because I want to replicate how they look, but because of the meaning they bring to the work.”

Source : "Grayson Perry lassos thoughts with a pen" by Grayson Perry, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.
“Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.”
“Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.”

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