Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
ADAM GOPNIKI don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
More Adam Gopnik Quotes
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The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.
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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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It’s really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place – relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.
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That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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For all the years I’d spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I
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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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The basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.
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I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast – you sort of can’t skip it.
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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else’s fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors
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If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in “The Book Of Mormon,” right?
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