"Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“I took a number of graphic courses, lithography and etching and wood engraving [at Art Institute]. And particularly as I got more and more into ceramics, I thought, life drawing doesn't have anything to do with ceramics.”
“The gap between vision and current reality is also a source of energy. If there were no gap, there would be no need for any action to move towards the vision. We call this gap creative tension.”
“No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.”
“In order to fly, you have to be free.”
“There was no aphrodisiac more powerful than talking, no seduction more effective than curiosity.”

Source : Manju Kapur (2010). “A Married Woman”, p.186, Faber & Faber
“Angels in the early morning may be seen the dews among. Stooping, plucking, smiling, flying. Do the buds to them belong?”
“We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.”
“When in doubt tell the truth.”

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