Carter Ratcliff quotes

“Talent counts for much, but effort counts for more.”
-- Carter Ratcliff

Source : Carter Ratcliff (1982). “John Singer Sargent”, Abbeville Pr

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“Imagine a revised edition of Shakespeare... a big, thick book with an elegant cover... You open it and find that there are no pages, just an empty box of space. On the back wall of the box is a small mirror. You look into it, see yourself, and now you know all you need to know about Shakespeare.”
-- Carter Ratcliff

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“I believe that the artist's feelings are in some way generative. And I suspect that much of the artist's most productive emotion - not all of it but much of it - is felt in the course of playing around with form.”
-- Carter Ratcliff

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“What is art?... From a strictly logical point of view, a question with no clear answer comes under the suspicion of being meaningless. But a strictly logical point of view never shows us much about art...”
-- Carter Ratcliff

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“It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.”

Source : In Observer 17 Aug. 1986

“[Castellani's testimony] clearly illustrates the concern we have that there is no way to separate the efforts to proselytize from the efforts to reform people.”

“As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.”

“In an effort to get the work of the Lord done we often lose contact with the Lord of work.”

“Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.”

“Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.”

“The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.”

“I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.”

“There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.”

“Talent always rises to the top”