Best Early Work Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“What do you actually care about?" "People," I said. "All right, E.M. Forster.”

Humor Dialogue Banter Allusion Howards End E M Forster Early Work Witty Banter Andrew Martin

Source: Early Work

“I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back at and say, 'His early work was really great.”

People Want Looks Artist One Thing Stuck Really Great Early Work

Author:Ryan McGinley

“You think you're developing and getting better and then you see something you did years ago. Looking at your early work.. sometimes it has a depth that surprises you.”

Thinking Years Sometimes Growth Years Ago Surprise Depth Developing Get Better Early Work

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“Although not of the quality of my later work, I feel there is some quality to it [my early work] in an art sense, and probably some additional quality in a biographical sense.”

Feels Art Quality Early Work

Author:E. J. Hughes

“I suppose some people find their voice later than others, but it's interesting to look back at really early work to see that there's some kernel or a Rosetta Stone, in a way.”

People Way Looks Voice Interesting Stones Kernel Early Work Rosetta Stone

Author:Joe Bradley

“The world that seemed so various and new, well, it does contract. One's burning desire to investigate human behavior, and to make, or imply, statements about it, does fall off. And so one does find that early works are full of energy and also full of vulgarity, crudity, and incompetence, and later works are more carefully finished, and in that sense better literary products. But . . . there's often a freshness that is missing in later works--for every gain there's a loss. I think it evens out in that way.”

“Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.”

“Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will.”

Film Audience Special I Realized Italian Distinguished Niche Something Special Early Work Film History

Author:Dario Argento

“They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg's early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historical cliché, as late romantic post-Wagnerian. One might just as well dispose of Beethoven as a late-classicist post-Haydnerian.”

Wells Might Wealth Deals Late Historical Critics Posts Early Work Classifying Schoenberg Classicists

Book:Essays on Music

Source: Essays on Music

“As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that... That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is.”

Looks May Mean Identity Poet Hardest Hardest Thing Early Work

Author:Kenneth Koch

“People wanted to get me published, and my early work was so weird that they weren't getting anywhere. I thought, okay, I'll do something that's just a tad more normal.”

People Wanted Normal Okay Early Work

Author:Nell Zink

“My early work is politically anarchist fiction, in that I was an anarchist for a long period of time. I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal. Nowadays, I regard myself as a libertarian.”

Long Fiction Periods Ideals Regard Libertarian Anarchism Anarchist Long Periods Of Time Early Work

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“I actually never knew Peter Green but I do respect his early work very much.”

Green Peter Early Work

Author:Ken Hensley

“[When you are an actor] it's not a burden to go to work whether it's hard work, whether it's super early work, whatever. So, I go there because I want to be there. I want to do this. That helps a lot.”

Want Hard Helping Actors Hard Work Burden Early Work

Author:Vanessa Paradis

“For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein's general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.”

Ifs Years Universe Theory Disaster Relativity Roger Singularity Theories Of Relativity Early Work

Author:Stephen Hawking

“We have to focus on his early work, and just one or two of his movies, and elements of his TV shows, to keep his memory pure. People now know that Elvis could play a mean rhythm guitar himself, and needed no other musicians to perform a great song. But Elvis was not just a rock star, he was an all-round entertainer.”

People Knows Mean Two Play Shows Song Stars Memories Focus Rocks Tvs Needed Pure Elements Musician Guitar Rounds Rhythm Just One Tv Shows Rock Star Entertainers Early Work

Author:Pete Townshend

“Much of the early work focused on dopamine and we were really looking for rewarding sorts of effects and sure enough, we only found that. But you can destroy the main dopamine-producing structures of the brain and you can still get an animal to self-administer drugs like cocaine.”

Stills Self Enough Found Animal Brain Effects Drug Structure Focused Cocaine Dopamine Early Work

Author:Carl Hart

“Work on causal theories of knowledge - early work by Armstrong, and Dretske, and Goldman - seemed far more satisfying. As I started to see the ways in which work in the cognitive sciences could inform our understanding of central epistemological issues, my whole idea of what the philosophical enterprise is all about began to change. Quine certainly played a role here, as did Putnam's (pre-1975) work in philosophy of science, and the exciting developments that went on in that time in philosophy of mind.”

“I can look at my early work and see what a pained struggle it was to draw what I was drawing. I was trying so hard to get this specific look that was in my head, and always falling short.”

Trying Looks I Can Hard Fall Struggle Draws Drawing Trying So Hard Early Work

Author:Daniel Clowes

“In my early work I didn't use much colour. I had no confidence about how I could do this.”

Use Colour No Confidence Early Work

Author:Michael Craig-Martin

“There are some very similar moments in the early work where the focus was on drawing, abstraction and fragmentation. Then it moved to the development of ideas. Lately it has become what architecture should be, which is more fluid organization. There has not been so much 'a change' but 'a development'.”

Should Ideas Moments Focus Development Organization Moved Architecture Drawing Abstraction Fluid Fragmentation Early Work

Author:Zaha Hadid

“Documentation is misleading, because the performance is dead. So the very early works were not documented at all.”

Performances Mislead Documentation Early Work

Author:Marina Abramovic

“Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their entire audience. Both were proclaimed revolutionaries for their early work and subjected to exhaustive attack when later works were thought to be inferior. Both developed their art without so much as a nodding glance toward their peers.”

Men May Art Audience Rocks Genius Revolutionary Rock N Roll Bob Inferiors Peers Glances Dylan Charlie Nodding Chaplin Early Work

Author:Jon Landau

“Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'”

Success Secret Late Oil Strikes Get Up Congratulations Up Early Secret To Success Early Work

Author:Joey Adams

“Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.”

Spirit Loses Progress Organization Watson Pioneering Early Work Pioneering Spirit

Author:Thomas J. Watson

“I don’t go back and look at my early work, because the last time I did, many years ago, it left me cringing. If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.”

Ifs Writing Years Looks Lasts Left Records Creating Years Ago Last Time Publish Early Work

Author:Lorrie Moore

“The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.”

Business Secret Late Oil Strikes Get Up Up Early Secret To Success Early Work

Author:John D. Rockefeller

“I love Bob Dylan, I really do. I love his early work, I love the first time he plugged in electrically, I love his Christian albums, I love his other albums.”

Firsts Christian First Time Albums Bob Dylan Early Work

Author:Johnny Cash

“With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And thats definitely changed.”

Done Changed Males Impulse Professors Disguise Early Work

Author:Judy Chicago

“An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict”

Made Artist Interest Conflict Tendencies Mixtures Compatible Early Work

Book:Mondrian: nature to abstraction : from the Gemeentemuseum, the Hague

Source: Mondrian: nature to abstraction : from the Gemeentemuseum, the Hague

“In my early work, I tried to hide my personality, my psychological state, my emotions. This was partly due to my feelings about myself and partly due to my feelings about painting at the time. I sort of stuck to my guns for a while but eventually it seemed like a losing battle. Finally one must simply drop the reserve.”

States Feelings Emotion Painting Personality Battle Losing Gun Dues Stuck Psychological Reserves Early Work

Book:Jasper Johns: The Seasons ; [exhibition] January 31-March 7, 1987, Leo Castelli Gallery

Source: Jasper Johns: The Seasons ; [exhibition] January 31-March 7, 1987, Leo Castelli Gallery

“My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.”

Firsts Two Book Sleep Okay Print Derivatives Early Work

Author:Mary Oliver

“There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.”

Strong Religious Backgrounds Very Strong Diminish Religious Love Foreground Early Work

Author:Chaim Potok

“If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead -- if you strike oil.”

Ifs Pay Taxes Late Oil Strikes Get Up Up Early Get Ahead Early Work

Author:J. Paul Getty

“I think everything I do is my early work. I can't wait to get on to the later stuff.”

Thinking I Can Stuff Waiting Early Work

Author:Joseph Fiennes