Amor Towles My personal challenge as an artist has been having a day job which is intellectually satisfying and fun – and thus can easily supplant the desire to make art. – Amor Towles Art Quotes Artist Quotes Challenge Quotes Day Quotes Desire Quotes Easily Quotes Fun Quotes Intellectually Quotes Job Quotes Personal Quotes Satisfying Quotes Supplant Quotes I prefer to put myself in an environment that’s further afield and look through the eyes of someone who differs from me in age, ethnicity, gender, and/or social class. I think a little displacement makes me a sharper observer. Early on in the writing, there is often a sentence that pins down a character for me.
Plautus If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice. – Plautus
James Lipton I had something called the back of the chair test. Where I sit, we don’t sit like you and I do. I can see a sliver right behind them and they come out and they sit like this like god students and they don’t touch the back of the chair. – James Lipton
Boris Vallejo You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school. – Boris Vallejo
Divya Khosla Kumar It’s scary for a 20-year-old to move to a city where she knows no one, but I did it and thankfully for me, I met the right people and got a whole lot of work in terms of commercials and music videos. – Divya Khosla Kumar
Max Aaron I remember watching the 2002 Olympic Games and watching the men’s event. I just started figure skating, and I remember thinking how cool it would be to be there. – Max Aaron
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