Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Sam Messer.
Last updated on December 3, 2024.
Sam Messer, is a painter living in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, film writer and director Eleanor Gaver, and daughter. He is Professor Emeritus at the Yale School of Art.
People who believe in painting... realize there is something greater than just coming up with an idea, and executing it.
You take that leap of faith. You have to be willing to follow, blindly, wherever it takes you. If you know where you're going beforehand, you're not going to end up with anything worth knowing.
How do you create something unknown?
In a very small way, painting addresses the 'Big Questions' to which we'll never find the answers. You do what you have to do even if it seems hopeless.