Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
ADAM GOPNIKDrawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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Writing well isn’t just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in
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I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them.
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It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it
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I don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.
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The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers.
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For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique.
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Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist…
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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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A fact about photography: we can look at people’s faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states
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Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility:
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Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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We don’t know that we’ve lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence.
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