"Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk……" — Terri Windling

"Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller."

— Terri Windling

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39 Quotes by Terri Windling

Terri Windling has 39 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The simple truth is that being a creative artist takes courage; it’s not a job for the faint of heart.…
Our lives are our mythic journeys, and our happy endings are still to be won.
In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore,…
We’re all misfits herefrom our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. From all those…
Happiness is a talent like any other. It's another art form. Some people are good at it, some people aren't.
I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them.
I'd like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way…
I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that…
What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.
I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills.
We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the…
Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity…

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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