#tin

...A painting was a translation of the language of my heart. ↗

— Amy Tan

#painting #art

My first thought, as a child, was that the artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and that he does it without destroying something else. A kind of refutation of the conservation of matter. That still seems to me its central magic, its core of joy. ↗

— John Updike

#artist #creativity #writing #art

The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with biography, and to both cries one should make the same answer: that freedom to invent outweighs loyalty to mere happenstance, the accidents of history; and good readers should know how to filter a general applicability from a particular story. ↗

— Tom Shippey

#fiction #tolkien #tom-shippey #writing #freedom

The other thing I like, in fact, several months ago I introduced a bill to end the absurd catch and release policy where our government has been giving tickets, essentially, to people who enter illegally and then letting them go and show up of their own volition. ↗

— John Doolittle

#ago #been #bill #catch #end

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. ↗

— Mark Van Doren

#art #assisting #discovery #teaching

I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt. ↗

— Gabby Douglas

#belt #continue #fresh #get #gymnastics

I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing. ↗

— Illeana Douglas

#disappointing #done #end #feel #few

‎Theorists of journalism have long noted parallels to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in physics: by reporting on something, one subtly but irrevocably changes it. ↗

— Ben Yagoda

#writing #art

When I get to my deathbed, I don't want to take my last breath and say, Well, how glorious. I've left the world my acting credits. I won't even think that. ↗

— Lesley-Anne Down

#breath #credits #deathbed #even #get

I think prime ministers, I actually think Cabinet ministers should be subject to intense scrutiny, I think that's in the public interest, even if some of the allegations made aren't right and so on, and they have to correct the record, it doesn't matter. ↗

— Alexander Downer

#allegations #cabinet #correct #even #i