"The artist's work, it is sometimes said, is to celebrate. But really that is not so; it is to express wonder. And something terrible resides at the heart of wonder. Celebration is social, amenable. Wonder has a chaotic splendor."

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Source : Patricia Hampl (1993). “Spillville: A Collaboration”, Milkweed Editions

Patricia Hampl

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“The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself.”

Source : Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.9, New York Review of Books
“I have always loved books, and as a mother, I wanted to share my passion for reading with my children.”
“I love the friendly faces of old sorrows; I have no secrets that they do not know.”

Source : Karle Wilson Baker (1931). “Dreamers on Horseback: (collected Verse)”
“Go out, go out I beg of you And taste the beauty of the wild. Behold the miracle of the earth With all the wonder of a child.”
“Listening is the key to everything good in music.”
“I might write four lines or I might write twenty. I subtract and I add until I really hit something I want to do. You don't always whittle down, sometimes you whittle up.”
“When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the Dark Ages of commerce. Maybe one thousandth of this aerial insecticide actually prevents the infestation. The balance goes to the leaves, into the soil, into the water, into all forms of wildlife, into ourselves. What is good for the balance sheet is wasteful of resources and harmful to life.”
“If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?”

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