Grotjahn Mark Quotes & Sayings

I think my masks reference artists who reference primitivism. They're not directly connected to tribal arts. I think they look more like third-grade art projects. — Mark Grotjahn

The reigning Miss Canada has been arrested for punching out another woman in a bar fight.Quite frankly, I think it's refreshing to finally find one beauty pageant winner who is against world peace. — Jay Leno

I got my first show at Blum & Poe because Paul McCarthy postponed his show, and they came to my studio and asked me if I could put together a show in two weeks. — Mark Grotjahn

At 42, I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and action. I didn't rationalize this, I just felt it intuitively and followed my intuition, which I have never regretted. — Wynn Bullock

I spent most of my adult life looking for romantic love. — Daphne Zuniga

Mark Grotjahn's large new paintings abound with torrents of ropy impasto, laid down in thickets, cascading waves, and bundles that swell, braid around, or overlap one another. — Jerry Saltz

The sport and game of angling is the true means and cause that brings a man into a merry spirit, which makes a flowering age and a long one. — Juliana Berners

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. — William Faulkner

I've got two girls, and they both make beautiful drawings. One of them really has a gift for the way that she colors around certain lines. — Mark Grotjahn

I was always blessed growing up with opportunities and access to facilities, equipment, and playing with my brothers in the backyard to be the best athlete I could be. — Rob Gronkowski

I like to remind teachers that even though they're all overwhelmed and overloaded, and it's easy to get burned out, it really is about the kids. It only takes one good teacher to change a life - one time, and one book. That's what happened when I was a kid. I had one good teacher that came in at the right time and turned me into a writer. So never lose sight - you could be that teacher. — Rick Riordan

We don't have to look far for miracles because they're all around us. Everything is astonishing. The universe on it's surface is alive with mystery. — Terence McKenna

Governments and government are wicked problems. They are complex, multi-faceted, and they don't consist of just one problem and there will never be just one solution. — Anonymous

But minds are not to be trusted. Minds are always drifting toward ambiguity, toward questions, when what you really need is certainty. Purpose. Clarity. Do not trust your minds. — Anthony Doerr