Gerhard Richter (1932) German visual artist, born 1932
Notes, 1964-65; as cited on collected quotes on the website of Gerhard Richter: 'on Techniques' https://www.gerhard-richter.com/en/quotes/techniques-5 <br class="br">1960's
“If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.”
— Fernando Pessoa, book The Book of Disquiet
Source: The Book of Disquiet
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John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
“Everything written about art is profoundly unimportant.”
Patrick Swift (1927–1983) British artist
The Artist Speaks (1951)
“I feel as if it were time for me to write to someone who will believe what I write.”
Grover Cleveland (1837–1908) 22nd and 24th president of the United States
Letter to his brother Rev. William N. Cleveland (7 November 1882); published in The Writings and Speeches of Grover Cleveland (1892), p. 534.
Context: I feel as if it were time for me to write to someone who will believe what I write.
I have been for some time in the atmosphere of certain success, so that I have been sure that I should assume the duties of the high office for which I have been named. I have tried hard, in the light of this fact, to appreciate properly the responsibilities that will rest upon me, and they are much, too much underestimated. But the thought that has troubled me is, can I well perform my duties, and in such a manner as to do some good to the people of the State? I know there is room for it, and I know that I am honest and sincere in my desire to do well; but the question is whether I know enough to accomplish what I desire.
The social life which seems to await me has also been a subject of much anxious thought. I have a notion that I can regulate that very much as I desire; and, if I can, I shall spend very little time in the purely ornamental part of the office. In point of fact, I will tell you, first of all others, the policy I intend to adopt, and that is, to make the matter a business engagement between the people of the State and myself, in which the obligation on my side is to perform the duties assigned me with an eye single to the interest of my employers. I shall have no idea of re-election, or any higher political preferment in my head, but be very thankful and happy I can serve one term as the people's Governor.
Paul Graham (1964) English programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
Just the wrong things.
"Good And Bad Procrastination"], December 2005