Quotes About Experience

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.

Paint is a very sensual material. It's lovely to work with and lovely to look at.

Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.

My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers.

I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.

I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work.

The life I live is my art work.

There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.

Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.

Anyone can relate to struggle, whether you're European or Asian. Anyone can relate to having to get up and go to work and eat.

If you want to work on your art, work on your life.

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama.

Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.

So most of my acting experience came in college when I was living away from them. I acted in various independent films, and I got some commercial work and stuff like that.

Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work

The Biblical story of the creation is an excellent parable of movement. The work of art, too, is above all a process of creation, it is never experienced as a mere product.

Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.

I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do.

Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

As far as working out, I know exactly what I'm doing.

After a year of doing general farm work, it was quite clear to me that chickens and I were not compatible.