"Being natural is the ultimate secret of our art."

-- Toshitsugu Takamatsu

#Art Quotes #Secret Quotes #Natural Quotes

“We humans have an amazing way of making everything personal.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“a lady could do, so I was told, just about nothing that she might want to do except attend all parties.”

Source : Evalyn Walsh McLean (2015). “Father Struck It Rich”, p.159, Pickle Partners Publishing
“Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative - that we're just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different - that this is human destiny, this is human nature.”
“All the things that are worth doing, take time.”
“A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother.”
“Have things to look forward to: Plan a trip, treat yourself to the spa, make plans in the future so that you can focus on what you're looking forward to versus how unbearable your present is. Understand that your brain is detaching. It's the same part of the brain that is activated as a cocaine user feening for their next fix. You're literally in withdrawal. Understand that it takes time for your brain and neural pathways to detach. You're not going crazy - it's just a process, and that process takes time.”
“Being smart young men, they say to themselves, "I want to get married, have a family, and I understand my wife wants to work too. Do you, Vicki, know how to help us do that?" Because they're no longer looking at that prospective wife, saying, "Well this is wonderful, you're getting educated, but of course as soon as we get married, you're going to stay home and make babies."”

Source : Interview with Erik Hansen, tompeters.com.
“But we are learning from the teaching and example of Jesus that life itself is a religion, that nothing is more sacred than a human being, that the end of all right institutions, whether the home or the church or an educational establishment, or a government, is the development of the human soul.”

Source : Anna Howard Shaw (1960). “The Speeches of Anna Howard Shaw”

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