“No, I drank champagne and romped and tried to flirt, and was altogether abominable," said Meg reproachfully.”
― Little Women
― Little Women
“When I lost my possessions, I found my creativity,” said E. Y. “Yip” Harburg, the lyricist behind The Wizard of Oz. “I felt I was being born for the first time.”11”
― Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
― Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
“It's something of a parodox that film, the art that most resembles our
daydreams, is the one most difficult to bring into existence.”
― Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen
daydreams, is the one most difficult to bring into existence.”
― Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen
“There are hardly any exceptions to the rule that a person must pay dearly for the divine gift of the creative fire.”
― Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
― Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
“I wasn’t in a hurry. I never have to be in any particular place at any particular time. Let time watch me, not me it.”
― Flights
― Flights
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