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Michael Edwards

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I thought it would be interesting to compile a list of artists favourite quotations. I'll start the ball rolling with one which I've laminated and mounted above my workstation in the studio. It comes from Tennyson's 'Ulysses' and reads : Some work of noble note may yet be done. Well I live in hope! There must be dozens out there so come on everyone.....

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If at first ye dont succeed, pull yer jaiket ower yer heid. anon. and sanitised Scottish advice to anyone in difficulty. wise words. Syd
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Forever the poet here's another one I like: ' music is the poetry of sound, painting is the poetry of sight.' - or something like it - by Whistler
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"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..." - apparently some military chap during the Boer wars. "Resistance is useless" - the Vogon guard just before Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect were ejected into space. "There has to be a better way of making money" - Me, 2016, right after a student failed to show for a lesson and several times since.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

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"If at first you don't succeed, have another try. Then give up. No sense in being a damn' fool about it." W C Fields
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Heard this not so long ago: Bad art is easily explained - just put an 'f' in front of it.
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I have a book full of my minimalist line drawings which I have titled 'Simplifying Form' . It has a couple of quotes on the front page which many might also find applicable to their approach to art. They are: 'There is no greatness where there is no simplicity (goodness and truth) '...Tolstoy Technical skill is mastery of complexity, creativity is the mastery of simplicity'...Christopher Zeeman

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One door closes and another one shuts. Originally I just got this wrong but the older I get the more I realise it's true . A favourite arty one of mine is Painting is very easy when you don't know how, but vert difficult when you do. Edgar Degas .

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"It's the pedal on the right" - me again, very loudly when I get stuck behind someone insisting on doing 25 in a 50 mph limit.
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I know it's going off subject but when it comes to driving I could give you a list - just one piece of advice - don't get stuck behind an old f...t wearing a cap!

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