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.
Not exact matches
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.