Roger de Grey quotes

“You have to live in a state of thinking your painting is good, or you couldn't do it.”
-- Roger de Grey

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“It's difficult to paint every day, and people who say they do, probably don't; it's a very demanding thing.”
-- Roger de Grey

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“People don't paint for the hell of it. It's a deeply seated thing - a preoccupation - the whole of one's life.”
-- Roger de Grey

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“we are the ones we have been waiting for”

Source : Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.342, The New Press

“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.”

“The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.”

Source : "The Parenting Trap" by A. A. Gill, www.vanityfair.com. November 2, 2012.

“Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.”

“Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.”

“Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.”

“I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.”

“When I'm traveling the world, I don't ever look anymore at the geography - just enough to catch galleries and paintings.”

“I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul.”

Source : Alexej von Jawlensky, Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen (1994). “Alexej von Jawlensky: 25/9-27/11/1994, Museum Boymans-van-Beuningen, Rotterdam”, Univ of Washington Pr

“The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.”