Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Katie McGarry

Quote by Katie McGarry

“Echo continued to tap her finger to her chin and created more dots on her face while she stared at the canvas. The intensity of her stare shocked me. The art teacher stacked the bowls and walked toward the door. “She’s in the zone. Good luck getting her attention. Do me a favor. If she ends up painting her whole face, grab my camera from my desk and take a picture. I’ll add it to my collection.” She gazed at Echo and smiled. “I’ll title that one Smurf. Nice tats, by the way.””

Quote by Katie McGarry

Book:Pushing the Limits
Create image

Work

Pushing the Limits

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Katie McGarry

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Katie McGarry. more

You May Also Like

“Your brain isn’t a rigid machine or a concrete structure that sets early in life and hardens with age. It’s endlessly flexible, endlessly capable of growth and transformation. This capacity for change is called neuroplasticity, and it's one of the most hopeful discoveries in modern science.”

InspirationalScienceMotivationHopeEmpowermentTransformationMental HealthPersonal GrowthResilienceNeuroplasticity
Book:The Therapist's Handbook for Breaking the Loop - Your NeuroFlex ACT Workbook: Rewire Your Mind. Reclaim Your Life.
Create image

“Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self--to the mediating intellect--as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode, although the gloom, "the blues" which people go through occasionally and associate with the general hassle of everyday existence are of such prevalence that they do give many individuals a hint of the illness in its catastrophic form.”

SelfPainExistenceDepressionIllnessIntellectMoodGloomElusiveBluesIncomprehensible
Book:Darkness visible: a memoir of madness
Create image

“There is a kind of despair involved in creation which I am sure any artist knows all about. In art, as in morality, great things go by the board because at the crucial moment we blink our eyes. When is the crucial moment? Greatness is to recognize it and be able to hold it and to extend it. But for most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter. And so we let each thing go, thinking vaguely that it will always be given to us to try again. Thus works of art, and thus whole lives of men, are spoilt by blinking and moving quickly on. I often found that I had ideas for stories, but by the time I had thought them out in detail they seemed to me hardly worth writing, as if I had already 'done' them: not because they were bad, but because they already belonged to the past and I had lost interest. My thoughts were soon stale to me. Some things I ruined by starting them too soon. Others by thinking them so intensely in my head that they were over before they began. Projects would change in a second from hazy uncommitted dreams into unsalvageable ancient history. Whole novels existed only in their titles.”

WritingInspirationArtistWriterCreative ProcessIris MurdochElusiveThe Black PrinceCrucial Moment
Book:The Black Prince
Create image