Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind Quotes

“Instead of pushing, she leans forward and taps the door silently with her forehead.”
― Anne Charnock, Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind

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

“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

“This novel makes some sense of my meandering career, which has taken me from science journalism and photography to a fine art practice.”
― 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

“Anne’s education initially focused on science—she studied environmental sciences at the University of East Anglia—she”
― Anne Charnock, Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind

“She wonders if colours are like letters; they spell out a word, a feeling, if arranged in the right order.”
― 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

“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

“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

“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

“Do you think that an artist imagines the final painting in an instant?”
― Anne Charnock, Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind

“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

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

“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