Gyorgy Kepes famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing.
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Our human nature is profoundly phototropic. Men obey their deepest instincts when they hold fast to light.
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The really great visual experience today is to fly over a huge city and look down into the night. It's like a tremendous jubilant Christmas tree. You just feel life is worth living when you come down you may have some doubts.
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The most convincing artistic forms of our time are inner models of structural vitality and social relevance. They give us confidence that in spite of everything there is still quality to life.
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Optical units close to each other on a picture plane tend to be seen together and, consequently, one can stabilize them in coherent figures.
-- Gyorgy Kepes
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I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.
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True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
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Upon the subject of education ... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.
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If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
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I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
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If you would be a better teacher, teach by the spirit. That is the thing that gives strength and power, meaning and life, to our otherwise weak efforts... remember, you cannot give away that which you do not possess. Study the life of the master. You do not have to have a college degree to be an efficient teacher. But you do have to become acquainted with the life and teachings of the master to be an effective teacher in the church.
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Behind the parents stands the school, and behind the teacher the home.
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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.
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It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.
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