Jean Wilson quotes

“Turn the paper. A piece looks better if every mark is not made while the surface is in the same orientation.”
-- Jean Wilson

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“The more composed scenes are like elevator music compared to some of the more dynamic styles of music. One is not better than the other. They both deserve their spots in the world.”
-- Jean Wilson

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“When in doubt, scribble.”
-- Jean Wilson

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“Turn things around sometimes and look at life from a different perspective.”
-- Jean Wilson

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“Time-wasting activities are the dessert. Oftentimes discoveries are made through the back door.”
-- Jean Wilson

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“Beautifully shot, impeccably paced, it was a clear, unrelenting look at the National Trust, its friends and enemies, and it makes you want to burn your passport and beg the Luftwaffe to have another go.”

Source : "AA Gill obituary" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2016.

“Tut, Tut, looks like rain”

“Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.184, Macmillan

“You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.”

Source : A.L. Kennedy (2010). “Original Bliss”, p.74, Random House

“I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.”

“Cars for me are like a piece of art.”

“It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.”

“I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.”

“Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is 'on paper.'”

“I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.”