#ted

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#avoid #been #did #experience #had

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#beautiful #depict #fall #feels #flaws

The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#drawn #lovingly #parents #portrait

The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#part #silence #story #tell #wanted

I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#autonomy #defend #fist #i #learned

So what I do is supervise the boarding process trying to get the shows the way I'd like them to be. And in some cases I've completely redone a board myself even though I'm not credited for it. ↗

— Craig McCracken

#boarding #cases #completely #credited #even

So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#art #aspect #autonomy #aware #counter

The multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#ideas #interested #multiplicity

We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#development #every #exist #fabricated #how

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#certain #contingent #darwin #evolution #merely