What did Adam Gopnik mean by: Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment. - Adam Gopnik Writer Copy
+ The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Adam Gopnik, Brutal, Moral, Scandal, 0 - Adam Gopnik Writer
+ Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Adam Gopnik, Mind, 0 - Adam Gopnik Writer
+ I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Adam Gopnik, Speak, Writing, 0 - Adam Gopnik Writer
+ Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Adam Gopnik, Flavor, Human, 0 - Adam Gopnik Writer
+ Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Adam Gopnik, Good Times, 0 - Adam Gopnik Writer
+ After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Adam Gopnik, Rewards, Spinning, 0 - Adam Gopnik Writer
+ We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second. Feraz Zeid, August 27, 2023December 24, 2023, Adam Gopnik, First, Swim, Travel, 0 - Adam Gopnik Writer
+ Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Adam Gopnik, Block, Wall, Writing, 0 - Adam Gopnik Writer
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
The real function of art is to change mental patterns … making new thought possible. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
