What did Barbara Kingsolver mean by: If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread. - Barbara Kingsolver Novelist · USA Copy
+ There is no perfect time to write. There is only now. Feraz Zeid, September 18, 2023December 26, 2023, Barbara Kingsolver, Perfect, Writing, 0 - Barbara Kingsolver Novelist · USA
+ For scientists, reality is not optional. Feraz Zeid, July 2, 2023December 12, 2023, Barbara Kingsolver, Reality, Scientist, 0 - Barbara Kingsolver Novelist · USA
+ I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Barbara Kingsolver, Book, Reading, Writing, 0 - Barbara Kingsolver Novelist · USA
+ Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers! Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Barbara Kingsolver, Appreciate, Stranger, 0 - Barbara Kingsolver Novelist · USA
+ Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Barbara Kingsolver, Numbers, Revenge, 0 - Barbara Kingsolver Novelist · USA
+ The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Barbara Kingsolver, Earth, Sound, 0 - Barbara Kingsolver Novelist · USA
+ Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Barbara Kingsolver, Creativity, Writing, 0 - Barbara Kingsolver Novelist · USA
+ I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Barbara Kingsolver, Decided, Dresses, 0 - Barbara Kingsolver Novelist · USA
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
