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• Let us not forget that group of self-taught, outsider artists who never stepped foot in any classroom and cared less about even exhibiting, and yet ended up with an audience of avid admirers.

  Scott Kahn

  Artist, Avid, Self

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• Writing is self-taught. Consulting other people only teaches you to depend on their reactions, which may or may not be legitimate. Quit looking for approval ... Learn to evaluate your own work with a dispassionate eye ... the lessons you acquire will be all the more valuable because you've mastered your craft from within.

  Sue Grafton

  Writing, Eye, Self

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• I've always been interested in plants because I'm a gardener, so I have a basic understanding of botany and things like that, but it's all self-taught.

  Michael Pollan

  Self, Understanding, Taught

  "Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma". Interview with Anne E. McBride, leitesculinaria.com. August 7, 2017.

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• I didn't graduate high school, so I never got a teacher's education, I'm mostly self-read, self-taught. I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.

  Billy Joel

  Teacher, School, Self

  "Backstage With Billy Joel: The Billboard Cover Story Interview (Exclusive)". Interview with Ray Waddell, www.billboard.com. January 31, 2014.

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• I actually went to film school, but I didnt like it. Im basically self-taught.

  Judah Friedlander

  School, Self, Taught

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• In my own professional work I have touched on a variety of different fields. I've done work in mathematical linguistics, for example, without any professional credentials in mathematics; in this subject I am completely self-taught, and not very well taught.

  Noam Chomsky

  Self, Done, Fields

  Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault (2006). “The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature”, The New Press

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• I'm completely self-taught. I absolutely don't believe in art or film schools!

  Tom Six

  Art, Believe, School

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• I'm a self-taught musician so how I read music is kind of very weak and I kind of read my own version of tablature, I write my own crappy reminders on what I'm playing.

  Jason Mraz

  Writing, Self, Musician

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I was always self-taught, there was no-one to study with when I was doing composition.

  Richard Meale

  Self, Taught, Study

  "The Music Show" with Andrew Ford, www.abc.net.au. August 24, 2002.

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• Paddy Ashdown is the only party leader who's a trained killer. Although, to be fair, Mrs Thatcher was self taught.

  Charles Kennedy

  Party, Self, Leader

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• [In eighteenth-century Britain] engineers for the most began as simple workmen, skilful and ambitious but usually illiterate and self-taught. They were either millwrights like Bramah, mechanics like Murdoch and George Stephenson, or smiths like Newcomen and Maudslay.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Simple, Self, Ambitious

  "Science in History". Book by John Desmond Bernal, Volume 2, 1954.

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• Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.

  Diogenes

  Philosophy, Self, Practice

  "Anthology (Book 4)". Book by Joannes Stobaeus, 1536.

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• My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

  Alan Garner

  Men, Self, Grandfather

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2007.

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• My reading was good enough to play big-band charts, but I ran into trouble with Claude (Thornhill)'s theme song "Snowfall," which had a repeating bass line in D-flat that was very difficult for me to finger using my self-taught technique. I spent one morning figuring out an alternate fingering, and that started me on the way to learning a better use of the fingerboard.

  Bill Crow

  Song, Morning, Reading

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• I'm a bit of a weird creature... I'm self taught and went to a regular film school, not art school, and I think it's unusual for somebody to approach animation from that angle. In a sense I've sometimes consclassered myself more of a filmmaker who just happens to animate.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Art, School, Thinking

  Source: www.notcoming.com

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• I can't describe it in words, but I can see it in my head, its color, its light, its shapes, and I've managed to synthesize my love for myself by way of many different reasonings and processes, and I've been able to really synthesize my own satisfaction and things that do it for me. They've usually been self-taught, self-instructed, self-refined. So to be with anybody else has to somewhat lie in that comfort zone I've created with myself so well.

  John Mayer

  Lying, Light, Self

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• Tips can make someone a better writer but not necessarily a good writer. That's a larger package - a matter of character. Golfing is more than keeping the left arm straight. Every good golfer is a complex engine that runs on ability, ego, determination, discipline, patience, confidence, and other qualities that are self-taught. So it is with writers and all creative artists. If their values are solid their work is likely to be solid.

  William Zinsser

  Running, Determination, Character

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• Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And when you're not writing, READ.

  Lois Duncan

  Writing, Self, Crafts

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• I am the most fortunate self-taught harpist and non-speaking actor who has ever lived.

  Harpo Marx

  Self, Actors, Taught

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work.

  Billy Cannon

  Teaching, Artist, Self

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• I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Teacher, School, Self

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• Most of my favourite guitarists are self-taught, because in a way there's less of a reverence for the instrument itself, so you end up finding and inventing however you want to play it.

  Bryce Dessner

  Self, Play, Want

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• It's just a joy to be able to work with a lot of different musicians. When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes.

  Cass McCombs

  Self, Play, Joy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm a self-taught musician, so I never really had the restrictions of any one instrument. I would always just sort of pick up instruments and make noise with 'em.

  Adrian Grenier

  Self, Noise, Taught

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• I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.

  Curtis Hanson

  Self, Novelists, Taught

  Source: www.avclub.com

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