Jacob Collins quotes
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“Painting figures is the hardest, certainly the most taxing genre, and you have to be the most on your game. If you have significant drawing problems, the figure will fall apart and it will read wrong emotionally.”
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“There are many ways to draw beautifully. It's important to let the drawing be an investigation and sometimes, in order to investigate, you need to go off the path.”
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“Finishing is torture... There's always some newly seen flaw. But the little glimpses of beauty between the anxiety make it worth it.”
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“The over-reliance on photography holds so many artists back.”
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“I spend so much time in my studio, which can be very dark, so it can begin to feel as if I'm a mole underground.”
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“I love painting still lifes because there's a feeling of musical, flowing experience. The drawing doesn't matter as much - what you're really after is a feeling of clarity and beauty.”
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“You can't go back. I know that. But you can look back.”
-- Jacob Collins
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Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.208, Courier Corporation
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“I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.”
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Source : "Remarks by Aaron Sorkin ’83 at Syracuse University’s 158th Commencement and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s 115th Commencement". Aaron Sorkin's Commencement address at Syracuse University in New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.305, Simon and Schuster
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“This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.”
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