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“The vast amount of time it takes to make my paintings is very challenging. I have so many exciting ideas I would love to bring to a final painting, but my time-consuming technique limits the number of ideas that get to become a painting.”

Quote by Mark Ryden

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Mark Ryden

Mark Ryden is an American painter known for his surrealistic style and dreamlike imagery. His works often feature references to childhood memories, religious symbols, and popular culture, which have gained him a wide following. more

“I work with digital audio, which is like sculpting, a form of chiseling down metal or wood. And I take audio and move it back and forth between the analog and digital realms and work with it almost like a plastic art until it takes forms in different shapes. And I use those figurines that come out of that type of work.”

Art Different Moving Metals

Author:Tim Hecker

“I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.”

Ifs World Way Kind I Can Character Kids Mother Understanding Imagine Attachment Being A Mother

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“I'm really sensitive to the beginning of a motif or a phrase or something that's kind of the backbone or becomes kind of the spine that you grow muscle tissue onto. You know from that, if you have that good beginning, it's like everything that grows off it often has potential. Maybe I'm good at that early bit of recognition of pieces of potential. I'm not sure.”

Kind Recognition Sensitive Not Sure Backbone

Author:Tim Hecker

“I try to structure albums in a pattern, like in a way where there's a motif that runs throughout or some kind of conceit that informs it in a general way. Maybe it's in a harmonic key. I like to go metastructural sometimes, like look at more than the three-minute passage and how that interacts with other pieces. And I've been increasingly interested in false starts and fraudulent beginnings, and things that don't reach their implied conclusions. I take an album and I kind of start moving things around like Jenga.”

Trying Kind Sometimes Running Moving Conclusion

Author:Tim Hecker