"Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?"

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Robert Schumann

#Reflection Quotes #Artist Quotes #Years Quotes

“...but then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that's what they are. You can be ignorant and stupid and go through your whole life without ever encountering any evidence against the hypothesis that you're a genius.”
“I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.”
“Today at least I live in a better place”
“The closer we are to God, to divine attributes - such as absolute truth, goodness, and beauty - the more we wonder. When we separate ourselves from truth, goodness, and beauty, we lose wonder and become cynical. The Enlightenment was basically the narrowing of our vision to a purely scientific, empirical, rationalistic worldview, screwing down the manhole covers on us so we became squinting underground creatures.”
“In this matter of baptism - if I may be pardoned for saying it - I can only conclude that all the doctors have been in error from the time of the apostles. . . . All the doctors have ascribed to the water a power which it does not have and the holy apostles did not teach.”
“Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Art is not the spiritual side of business.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.56, Univ of California Press
“I don't feel badly about that. There's a lot of energy on the golf course. The guys are playing great. I like the pairings in the afternoon. I'm going to take what we've got.”

Source : Hal Sutton during The Ryder Cup Matches Press Conference, www.rydercup.com. September 18, 2004.

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