Martin Filler

The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.

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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Mark Twain 22

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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Victor Hugo 22

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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your...

Henry Ford 18

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You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

George Burns 17

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Andrew Carnegie 20

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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Charles M. Schulz 19

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Confucius 17

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Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas 17

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Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Betty Friedan 13

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I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

James Broughton 16