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Here on the 'planet of inexperience' we're always on the frontier. The trick for the painter is to know this and to embrace the danger and the mystery of it. (Warren Criswell)

If an artist has no experience before he makes a painting or a sculpture, he is not an artist. (Naum Gabo)

Inexperience is a quality of the human condition. We are born one time only; we can never start a new life equipped with the experience we've gained from a previous one. We leave childhood without knowing what youth is; we marry without knowing what it is to be married; and even when we enter old age, we don't know what it is we're heading for: The old are innocent children of their old age. In that sense, man's world is the planet of inexperience. (Milan Kundera)

Inexperience is what makes a young man do what an older man says is impossible. (Herbert V. Prochnow)

I think of myself as a beginner. Sometimes that's the whole joy. If you could just do it, there'd be no point in doing it. (Wayne Thiebaud)

Students, seeing from the perspective of inexperience, have a sense of what they do that communicates wonder through the work they produce – not slick at all, not refined, but with a purity that professionals rarely, if ever, obtain. (Andrew Wielawski)


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