Hans Asperger famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential.
-- Hans Asperger

#Art #Autism #Essentials
Not everything that steps out of line, and thus "abnormal", must necessarily be "inferior".
-- Hans Asperger

#Autism #Abnormal #Lines
We are convinced, then, that autistic people have their place in the organism of the social community. They fulfil their role well, perhaps better than anyone else could, and we are talking of people who as children had the greatest difficulties and caused untold worries to their care-givers.
-- Hans Asperger

#Children #Talking #Worry
The autistic personality is an extreme variant of male intelligence.
-- Hans Asperger

#Personality #Males #Autistic
Social adaptation has to proceed via the intellect.
-- Hans Asperger

#Adaptation #Social #Intellect

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.
The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.
The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.
To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesnâ€™t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.
I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.
The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.
There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation. It is essential to know whether one can live with it or whether, on the other hand, logic commands one to die of it.
We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function.

Hans Asperger famous quotes

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