Sentences with phrase «most autodidacts»

The fate of most autodidacts, a fate I happen to understand only too well, is to be perpetually reinventing the wheel and, in the course of that needless reinvention, never to achieve the wing, the propeller or the time machine.

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Like John Nash, Bookstein is an outsider, an autodidact who dared to think «outside the box,» taking on problems that most experts considered unsolvable.
Kind, less judgmental then most, a bit of an autodidact, a good snuggler, an pokemon master:-P, geeky, and a decent listener.
The autodidact Guston gained a foothold in New York's art scene in the 1950s and became one of the most important representatives of Abstract Expression around Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko.
Like two other notable autodidacts, Jasper Johns and Robert Ryman, Seliger did what most artists find impossible - he invented his own occasion.
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