Margaret Hughes quotes

“A great cricketer must be an artist and express himself in his strokes.”
-- Margaret Hughes

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“As we at all times criticise the Premier for his management of home affairs, call Mr Butler a fool for his Budget, find fault with Beecham's conducting, or Gielgud's performance, can we not, sometimes, say that our cricketers are not quite so brilliant as usual?”
-- Margaret Hughes

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“I have been treated as a freak, rather like the fat lady at the circus.”
-- Margaret Hughes

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“The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?”

“The more an artist works the more there is to do.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.56, Univ of California Press

“Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.24, Univ of California Press

“We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.”

“Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.”

“Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious.”

“The pencil-stroke is like cutting into the heart.”

Source : "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book editing by Monika Faber, 2005.

“You haven't beaten me. You have sacrificed sure footing for a killing stroke.”

“I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke.”

“A great cricketer must be an artist and express himself in his strokes.”