"The truth is, anyone who puts so much of herself and her life into art as you do must naturally fear any failure in that art as a potential threat to your life. And so you protect your art more than you protect your health or the common forms of happiness the rest of us have. And you probably have this in common with every artist you admire."

-- Arthur Phillips

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“Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.”
“It's the quiet, humble guy that's not saying anything. That's the really dangerous one.”
“You have to get beyond the barrier of self-protection before you can really fly.”
“Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.”

Source : Last Poems (1922) no. 9
“I love making object form; I wish I was doing more of it. I admire the research of my colleagues, and sometimes it makes me sad when their beautiful work - the deep dives into formal research and nuances of geometry and so on - ends up circling in more and more circumscribed contexts. I wish they were more powerful. It's not a modern proposition. Active form doesn't kill object form. I want my students to have all those skills related to geometry, shape, measure, scale, etc., plus skills for using space to manipulate power in the world.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“It doesn't do any good to just be on the side of black people. The funnier comedic position is to be on the side of oppressed people in general.”
“All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual.”
“I have my own story, and I love my story, but I know I can't tell it alone, not now. Because stories have centers, but they don't have edges. No boundaries.”

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