“There's the space that you soar into, the space that you sometimes break through to, and hang in. A sort of gasp or gap.” SometimesSpaceBreakGapsSoarBreak Through Author:Selima Hill
“The very things I used to be told off for - daydreaming, exaggerating, making mistakes, wild guessing, contradicting, spying, being obsessive, being reckless - for these, suddenly, I am being praised.” SuccessUsedMistakeUsed To BeMaking MistakesRecklessDaydreamingObsessiveGuessingContradictingExaggerating Author:Selima Hill
“I step naked into the shower of truth - whole-hearted, bloody-minded, utterly selfish, no longer even pretending to enjoy or understand anything.” WholeTruthEnjoyStepsSelfishNakedPretendingBloodyShowersHearted Author:Selima Hill
“I'm not so sure that the value of art is all it is cracked up to be.” ArtValuesArt IsCracked Author:Selima Hill
“What am I writing for anyway? Is it like dreaming? Is it a benevolent process? Something that moves the past forward? And what about those people who say all you get from looking at the past is a stiff neck?” PeopleWritingDreamPastMovingProcessNecksBenevolentLooking At The PastStiff Neck Author:Selima Hill
“Potential audiences are real people found in real places.” PeopleRealFoundAudience Author:Suzanne Lacy
“To see the human condition in the old woman, in the child, in the model on the stand, in that particular human being, and to let the hand trace it, this act of adoration is called, 'drawing from life.” HumansChildrenHandsHuman BeingsConditionsParticularModelsDrawingHuman ConditionAdorationOld Woman Author:Frederick Franck
“This apple tree is not the first one I draw, but perhaps the thousandth. I feel the sap rise to its spreading branches. I feel in my toes how its roots grip the earth.” FeelsFirstsEarthTreeDrawsRootsExperienceApplesBranchesToesSapApple Trees Author:Frederick Franck
“While drawing grasses I learn nothing 'about' grass, but wake up to the wonder that there is grass at all.” WonderWake UpDrawingGrass Author:Frederick Franck
“I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life.” PeopleSelfUsedImaginationUsed To BeTemptedSubjectiveMy ImaginationInner SelfExterior Author:Oskar Kokoschka