Ifs Quotes - Page 19

• A guitar is a piece of wood, and if this piece is resonating in a period of 40 or 60 years, it kind of gets to know what it is after awhile... the reason violinists play violins that are hundreds of years old. The wood learns to sing.

  Dave Genn

  Music, Guitar, Years

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• I advise students on the subject of color as follows: If it looks good enough to eat, use it.

  Abe Ajay

  Color, Looks, Use

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• I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.

  Scott Kahn

  Honesty, Language, Paint

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• I don't think it's wise to manufacture a painting, just for the sake of working... if the impulse isn't truly there, the painting will lack power.

  Scott Kahn

  Wise, Thinking, Sake

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• The voice will always be heard, even if the song is very different.

  Scott Kahn

  Song, Voice, Style

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• If you look closely at any face, you'll start to see that different areas of the flesh tones are tinged with four other colors - red, green, purple and yellow.

  Doug Dawson

  Color, Purple, Yellow

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• We can be creative and generate new breakthroughs, if we're willing to work with ideas from the pool of history - both distant and more recent - despite the potential for our experiments to fail.

  Doug Dawson

  Ideas, Creative, Pool

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• If you take an intense color and put an intense complement next to it without graying it, it's very hot. The gray allows the eye to do the visual mixing.

  Simmie Knox

  Eye, Color, Mixing

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• The light is really the most important thing, so if you don't have skylights and if you don't have north light, this is like having a natural skylight. Light is the crucial factor. With wet oil paints, you don't want any hot spots or bounce.

  Pierre Coupey

  Light, Oil, Important

  "Dream Studio". opusartsupplies.com. October 30, 2011.

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• Be Bold. It's just canvas, just paint. If it doesn't work for you, paint over it and start again. Don't be afraid that you are wasting supplies. Every failure teaches something, if only what not to do.

  Tiko Kerr

  Courage, Canvas, Paint

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• Is an 'idea' an advance visualization of a piece? Part of a piece? If anything - if it hasn't already evaporated - it's one of the very first things sacrificed during the actual process of making something.

  Judith Schaechter

  Ideas, Pieces, Firsts

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• Certainly, a gallery has to sell your work, so they'll be very frightened of you doing anything too different, and that can be difficult, but they can also recognize the need to change. Usually, if you just go and do it, and other people like it, it will still get recognized.

  Catherine Yass

  People, Different, Needs

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• For each final photograph, I'll have shot loads of film. I suppose people don't see all that. But when someone looks at a piece of work, they know something has gone into it, even if they can't lay their finger on what it is.

  Catherine Yass

  People, Finals, Looks

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• Today, it may seem as if there are demons attacking me from within. I should remember that demons are illusory, and that when I think that I'm being attacked by unseen forces, it probably just means that I am going insane.

  John S. Hall

  Mean, Thinking, Insane

  "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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• This is a prayer, inchoate and unfinished, for you, my love, my loss, my lesion, a rosary of words to count out time's illusions, all the minutes, hours, days the calendar compounds as if the past existed somewhere like an inheritance still waiting to be claimed.

  Dana Gioia

  Prayer, Loss, Past

  Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.65, Graywolf Press

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• This is the sort of book that justifies fatwahs. If WWIII occurred right now, we could die happy knowing Baxter would never write again. If a dinosaur killing asteroid was headed for Earth and I knew Baxter had another book coming up, I would campaign for letting the rock hit, since it is obviously the work of a benovelent deity trying to save us from another Titan.

  James Nicoll

  Book, Writing, Rocks

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• I have hated every Kress I read, especially this one, but the Bear is a standard Bear and if you like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing you'll like.

  James Nicoll

  Bears, Standards, Hated

  "An incomplete commentary on The John W. Campbell Memorial Awards". Usenet article, groups.google.com. 2002.

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• I think once you start eating people you should stop claiming to be a vegetarian, even if you only eat bad people.

  James Nicoll

  Thinking, People, Vegetarian

  Usenet article, 2003.

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• About Antrax by Terry Brooks: I wonder if he's planning a book called SRS? Or F'lu?

  James Nicoll

  Book, Planning, Wonder

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• The compliments you are about to pay could only sadden me, because what you love in our dear peninsula is exactly the object of our hatreds. Indeed, you crisscross Italy only to meticulously sniff out the traces of our oppressive past, and you are happy, insanely happy, if you have the good fortune to carry home some miserable stone on which our ancestors have trodden.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Home, Past, Compliments You

  "Modernism and Its Margins: Reinscribing Cultural Modernity from Spain and Latin America" by Anthony L. Geist, Jose B. Monle-N, Taylor & Francis, (p. 57), 1999.

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• I hope my work is recognizable as being by a woman, though I certainly would never deliberately make it feminine in any way, in subject or treatment. But if I speak in a voice which is my own, it's bound to be the voice of a woman.

  Isabel Bishop

  Voice, Way, Speak

  Helen Yglesias, Isabel Bishop (1989). “Isabel Bishop”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• If environmental protection efforts continue to lag behind economic growth, pollution will become even more rampant.

  Zhou Shengxian

  Effort, Growth, Environmental

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• The NFL has a hard cap, but if you ask 20 NFL experts who is going to win the Super Bowl this year, you might get 20 different answers. If you then asked 20 baseball experts who is going to represent the American League in the World Series, at least 90 percent of them would say the Yankees and the rest would say Seattle.

  Bob DuPuy

  Baseball, Winning, Years

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• I was hoping in the last fifteen minutes that Barcelona would beat them. I've made my mind up on Benitez tonight. He's a nice man but he's got a huge negative streak running through him. Liverpool was terrible in the second half. They didn't play football. If that was a concert, you'd boo. Gerrard: found out. A nothing player. They were terrible. Terrible.

  Eamon

  Football, Running, Nice

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• It's not meant to be entertaining. If you want entertainment, go to the pictures. This is serious!

  Eamon

  Want, Entertainment, Serious

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