M Quotes
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“Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into”
“Making art is an act of courage. Do you know who said that?”
“Making art is an act of faith.”
“Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.”
“Making art is dealing with people on your own terms. The ideal way of using people is using them like clay, but that being out of the question, except for lunatics and leaders, art is a good alternative.”
“Making art is different for everyone.”
“Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here.”
“Making art is like having a conversation. I like to speak simply. I like to speak the truth.”
“Making art is like humour - very moment dependent.”
“Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.”
“Making art is nothing but risk, always. If it's not risk, it's no good.”
“Making art now means working in the face of uncertainty; it means living with doubt and contradiction, doing something no one much cares whether you do, and for which there may be neither an audience nor reward. Making the work you want to make means setting aside these doubts so that you may see clearly what you have done, and thereby see where to go next. Making the work you want to make means finding nourishment within the work itself.”
Source: Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
“Making art provides uncomfortably accurate feedback about the gap that inevitably exists between what you intended to do, and what you did. In fact, if artmaking did not tell you (the maker) so enormously about yourself, then making art that matters to you would be impossible. To all viewers but yourself, what matter is the product: the experience of shaping that artwork. The viewers' concerns are not your concerns (although it's dangerously easy to adopt their attitudes.) Their job is whatever it is: to be moved by art, to be entertained by it, to make a killing off it, whatever. Your job is to learn to work on your work.”
Source: Art and Fear
“Making art requires a degree of intentionality. All works of art require a contemplative individual drawing from their bank of knowledge and immersion into the realms of memory and imagination in order to make an outward, communicative expression. Only human beings can draw upon the dialectical tension between memory and imagination to create artistic renderings.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it.”
“Making art, being creative, is risky, especially for actors, but everybody on the set is being creative. You're putting yourself out there with ideas, and to have your brain be free of stress so that it can actually do its best work, it feels like you want to have a real sense of intimacy and connection and trust with everybody.”
“Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.”
“Making art, I try to just gently persist, instead of having freak-outs where I'm like, Oh, my god, I'll never draw again. You are going to draw again, so you might as well relax.”
“Making attempt, working day and night is not enough. We must believe in what we do. We must believe the impossible before it can be probable and possible.”
“Making bad decisions and choosing the wrong partner can ruin your life for a long time, perhaps forever.”
“Making beautiful things for everyday use is a wonderful thing to do.. making life flow more easily.. but art confronts life, allowing it to stop and perhaps change direction.. they are completely different.”
“Making better choices takes work. There is a daily give and take, but it is worth the effort.”
Source: Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes
“Making big investments to get off oil, making clean energy alternatives widely available and cheap, and creating millions of new jobs in clean energy industries is a winner with American voters and can carry the whole suite of policies that we need to address global warming.”
“Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn't matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way.”
“Making books has always felt very connected to my bookselling experience, that of wanting to draw people's attention to things that I liked, to shape things that I liked into new shapes.”
“Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.”
“Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.”
Source: My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century
“Making change tolerable is one of the duties of Government.”
“Making changes isn't about stopping the problem, it's about starting the solution.”
“Making changes to better appeal to customer is INNOVATION.”
“Making checklists of things you're looking for in a person is the numero uno thing you can do to guarantee you'll be alone forever.”
“Making chocolate is a way of life, not a profession.”
“Making choices for the feelings they bring us & not what others think means we can find fulfilment and achievement from fulfilling our goals.
From the writers of Carolann's Pathway and Carolann's Progression, The Gateway to Understanding your Life's Ultimate Journey”
“Making choices that are meaningful to you is the essence of the French woman's secret.”
“Making choices that improve things for all of us on the planet is an act of compassion, a simple act we can do any time we go shopping.”
“Making clear that there could be a negative outcome—and that you are willing to do whatever is necessary—can not only get the other person's attention but also, in some cases, increase respect for you. Being willing to fight hard for what you believe in often engenders admiration.”
Source: Influence Without Authority
“Making clothes involves what I like...color, pattern, shape and movement...I like the everyday process...the people, the pressure, the surprise of seeing the work come alive walking and dancing around on strangers. Like red lipstick on the mouth, my products wake up and brighten and bring the wearer to life...drawing attention to her beauty and specialness...her moods and movements...her dreams and fantasies.”
“Making clothes that everybody can wear is also something that stimulates me a lot, because I have this edgy, fashion-y part, but I am also totally involved with a brand that is about how people dress, and what they want. And it's a whole other look you can have on the street. It's exciting because it speaks to the other part of my job and what my passion is. A designer wants to make something useful for as many people as possible.”
“Making clothing is not just about the application of style and technique. At some stage, you want to experiment with new materials, or experiment in making materials. When you have a material to yourself, you get to make something totally new based on how that material acts. The access afforded by this tannery pushes you beyond your comfort or knowledge zone of hue and texture, forcing you - the designer - to think about how that flat plane will act when it enters the third dimension.”
“Making coffee has become the great compromise of the decade. It's the only thing "real" men do that doesn't seem to threaten their masculinity. To women, it's on the same domestic entry level as putting the spring back into the toilet-tissue holder or taking a chicken out of the freezer to thaw.”
“Making college affordable is a really important goal, and my plan will work better than Senator [Bernie] Sanders' plan by everybody who has looked at it.”
“Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.”
Source: Hector and the Search for Happiness
“Making conclusions about life is a sure way to deny yourself the possibility of a human being transforming himself into the Divine.”
“Making connections wasn’t something she’d ever considered necessary before, but here, it felt... nice.”
Source: Do Not Be Afraid: A Whimsical Urban Fantasy About a Stranded Angel, a Hellhound Puppy, and a Second Chance on Earth
“Making conscious choices about what we eat, based on what the earth can sustain and what our bodies need, can help remind us that our whole society must begin to balance sustainable production with human need.”
“Making consumer choices that reward eco-friendly products and companies is a great way to start.”
“Making corn dollies under the watchful eye of Mrs Darley was an absolute must for all of us living in the tiny Cornish hamlet on Bodmin Moor.”
Source: Mrs Darley's Pagan Whispers: A Celebration of Pagan Festivals, Sacred Days, Spirituality and Traditions of the Year
“Making dances is an act of progress; it is an act of growth, an act of music, an act of teaching, an act of celebration, an act of joy.”
“Making decent human beings accept the principle of a private, divine covenant be it first, second, third, old, new or whatever, will destroy all humanity and decency in our species.
All these diverging and contradicting one man “revelations” will always destroy our HUMAN grace, to serve one of the many “versions” of a hypothetical DIVINE grace…
Something like… rape for a divine virginity…”
Source: The Human Consensus and The Ultimate Project Of Humanity
“Making decisions is probably the most important thing people ever do. Nothing happens until someone makes a decision.”
Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson