#peri

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#appraise #blunder #cannot #chiefly #even

By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years' experience building electronic musical instruments. ↗

— Robert Moog

#by the time #electronic #experience #got #had

God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#age

I heard that people were really interested in the new haircut, which I think is so funny. Great haircut, I really like it. It goes great with the time period. And I was super, super, super-happy to have my bangs swept to the side rather than straight in front of me, which I dealt with for three seasons. I'm very, very much done with that. ↗

— Elizabeth Moss

#dealt #done #front #funny #goes

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you that music has boundaries. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. ↗

— Charlie Parker

#art

You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#experiments #fit #got #make #observations

I continued working without a break, but in the middle of the third story...I felt myself tiring more than if I had been working on a novel. The same thing happened with the fourth. In fact, I did not have the energy to finish them. Now I know why: The effort involved in writing a short story is as intense as beginning a novel, where everything must be defined in the first paragraph: structure, tone, style, rhythm, length, and sometimes even the personality of a character. All the rest is the pleasure of writing, the most intimate, solitary pleasure one can imagine, and if the rest of one's life is not spent correcting the novel, it is because the same iron rigor needed to begin the book is required to end it. But a story has no beginning, no end: Either it works or it doesn't. And if it doesn't, my own experience, and the experience of others, shows that most of the time it is better for one's health to start again in another direction, or toss the story in the wastebasket. Someone, I don't remember who, made the point with this comforting phrase: "Good writers are appreciated more for what they tear up than for what they publish. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#experience

You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#artists #artists-life #arts-and-humanities #creative-people #creative-process

Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it. ↗

— Vita Sackville-West

#daily #daily experience #difference #experience #much

I just did a play in New York which has been my best experience that I've had for maybe ever. It was Paul Weitz's play called Privilege and I was in New York for three months. ↗

— Bob Saget

#best #called #did #ever #experience