Anne Charnock > Quotes

“She had interesting cracks on her ceiling, which she had mentally enhanced and colored to make a virtual series of 723 abstracts.”
― Anne Charnock, A Calculated Life

“An Experiment: To introduce random activity into daily routines, forcing a shift into uncharted territory and new experiences.”
― Anne Charnock, A Calculated Life

“There’s nothing wrong with making mistakes—Taniyama proved the point—as long as one’s intuition is sound.”
― Anne Charnock, A Calculated Life

“bugbear, that Tom. She should have told him; if he needed so much”
― Anne Charnock, A Calculated Life

“She has a true eye for composition, which is difficult to teach, but does she have an instinct for storytelling, which any great painter must possess?”
― Anne Charnock, Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind

“It’s all about bringing together the many individual elements. That’s why I left my bed early in the morning for so many years, and why I worked long hours, with so many years spent away from home.”
― Anne Charnock, Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind

“teetotal.”
― Anne Charnock, A Calculated Life

“predecessor”
― Anne Charnock, A Calculated Life

“I think I’ve learnt something this weekend, Harry. Information is not the same as knowledge.”
― Anne Charnock, A Calculated Life

“revised,”
― Anne Charnock, A Calculated Life

“angularity.”
― Anne Charnock, A Calculated Life

“emotional”
― Anne Charnock, A Calculated Life

“every creature is beautiful to its mother and father,”
― Anne Charnock, Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind

“Embedded”
― Anne Charnock, A Calculated Life

“You started by looking at the man with the big hat on the rearing horse, and your gaze has moved in a circle around the picture, back to where you started.”
― Anne Charnock, Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind

“he has experienced no better feeling in his life, no other comparable sense of euphoria, than the feeling at the start of a grand commission,”
― Anne Charnock, Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind

“The point is that once you start interfering, you’re committed. And it’s difficult to undo.”
― Anne Charnock, Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind

“matte”
― Anne Charnock, A Calculated Life

“viridian”
― Anne Charnock, A Calculated Life

“Or a search for original forms, a search for the beginnings of things?”
― Anne Charnock, A Calculated Life

“assimilation,”
― Anne Charnock, A Calculated Life

“What’s the point of making a large painting if people only look at one small part of the composition? They won’t feel excited, and they won’t read the whole story.”
― Anne Charnock, Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind

“That the painting composes itself through a moment’s inspiration? The artist must have a strategy every bit as cunning as that of the commander of a great army.”
― Anne Charnock, Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind

“He was gifted with the special capability of making many mistakes, mostly in the right direction.”
― Anne Charnock, A Calculated Life

“She’s struggling to write her own aphorism, and the best so far is this: Do not waste time imagining improbable disasters, for the worst disasters are always a surprise.”
― Anne Charnock, Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind

“He calls these photos “celebrations of passing intimate moments.”
― Anne Charnock, Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind

“A pearl could be lost more easily than found through happenstance, through carelessness.”
― Anne Charnock, A Calculated Life

“the artist sees things that normal people are in too big a hurry to see.”
― Anne Charnock, Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind

“Do not waste time imagining improbable disasters, for the worst disasters are always a surprise.”
― Anne Charnock, Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind

“idiosyncratic”
― Anne Charnock, A Calculated Life