“Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. I'm of a certain age, I come from a different tradition and, in any case, I can't do anything else. I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.” HumansStillsI CanDifferentAgeCertainCasesPaintingSingingCapacityTraditionDancingProfessionMake SenseHuman Capacity Author:Gerhard Richter
“It's a privilege, you know, to paint and it takes up a lot of time and it means there's a lot of things you don't do. But still, with me, painting was more than a profession, it was also an obsession. I had to paint.” KnowsMeanStillsPaintingPaintPrivilegeProfessionObsession Author:Alice Neel
“I'm still not sure what pulled me into the career I chose, even though, now, I can't imagine having done anything else. Mostly, I think I wanted to be a writer, or at least to try for a while.” ThinkingTryingStillsI CanDoneWantedCareersImagineProfessionNot Sure Book:A Peter Gzowski Reader Source: A Peter Gzowski Reader
“This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.” MenStillsMilitaryProfessionAccepted Author:Lawrence Korb
“It is difficult for a statesman who still has a political future to reveal everything that he knows: and in a profession in which one is a baby at 50 and middle-aged at seventy-five, it is natural that anyone who has not actually been disgraced should feel that he still has a future.” KnowsFeelsShouldStillsPoliticalDifficultNaturalFiveMiddleBabyProfessionSeventiesStatesmenMiddle Aged Book:The collected essays, journalism, and letters of George Orwell Source: The collected essays, journalism, and letters of George Orwell