Writing with drawing

My drawings are not illustrations for what has been already said,
You actually write with your drawing and for me, very easily,
it is a kind of writing with drawing.

Satrapi



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Operational excellence

By the time they ask you something,
They already wanted it.


-lm-
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Coal fire

Don't ignore the coal-fire


- Titanic new theory
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Careful

"I'm extremely careful about what I really want to do, and I have to be happy doing it, so I haven't just wasted my time and my life."

Satrapi 

Satrapi

You know, my hospitality will always be Iranian. I've been brought up this way. The doors of my house are always open.

Marjane satrapi 

Satrapi

 you know, it's time to consider each other simply as human beings. It's just a good beginning, I think.

Marjane satrapi 

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Pammi’s philosophy

Simplify.
Reduce.

Book to read

Capital
- Rana Das Gupta

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Movies to watch

Seventh seal
Persona

- Bergman

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Life

You must be a leader of your own life...

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Predictable

I cannot be predictable

Lm
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Prince

Prince
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Buy the ticket

Buy the ticket.
Take the ride.

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Don't be a cheap MF

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Want

I want some of that


-//-

Be prepared to work for wanting some of that.

Dylan

The purpose of art is to stop time

Hurley

Direction is the final ingredient in portraiture

- Peter Hurley

Hurley

Work on yourself

"Not possible without working on yourself"

Observation

All art is based on the power of observation

- Alexis Buryk

Next

I never know what I am going to do next
- Stephen Fry

Wrong

Stop looking at what's right in the picture.
Look at what's wrong

- Sal Cincotta

Awkward

As creative types,
We are the queen and king of awkward

- Sal Cincotta

Physical

Photographer is such a physical art

- Alexis Buryk

Lack of

Lack of empathy is visible


- Alexis Buryk

Deliver

Deliver for yourself

-Alexis Buryk

Muscle

Creativity is a muscle
-Alexis Buryk

Greg Gorman

I begin very very close

- on taking portraits

Themes

Be responsible for your life.
Don't give the responsibility of your life to some-one else

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Natural world
Black ink
Large scale works
Patterns
Shapes
Words and image
Faces
The beauty of the world we live in
Color harmony
Rough on the edges
Poetic

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- Routine process - embedded in daily rituals
- daily meditation
- capture of ideas in a central place
- post your work regularly
- seek mentors and share work
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Existed

In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed.

Mary Oliver