"The professionalism of technique and flash of dexterity are more comfortable to be around than raw creative power, hence our society generally rewards virtuoso performers more highly than it rewards original creators."

-- Stephen Nachmanovitch

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“You have to challenge people to reconsider what is art, what is taste. Because it's someone's point-of-view.”
“I do find some of the meanest, most exclusionary people are the nerds. And they rebel against other nerds! What are you doing? As much as I love nerds and the nerd movement, the nerd-on-nerd violence is really bad. A lot of times, nerds are the meanest ones online. And also, the trolling can be very extensive because they're smart.”
“And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God.”
“I had a total revelation with the feminist moment, with Carolee Scheeman and Marina Abromovic and of course Joan Jonas; that was a big breakthrough with me. And through them, I was introduced to Chris Burden and Bruce Nauman and Vito Acconci. You can almost call it a gang, because the works are always talking together. That stuff had a huge impact on me, but other than that, my interest had always been old paintings.”
“How vast is eternity! - It will swallow up all the human race; it will collect all the intelligent universe; it will open scenes and prospects wide enough, great enough, and various enough to fix the attention, and absorb the minds of all intelligent beings forever.”
“It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.”
“We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.”

Source : CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. June 6, 2008.
“The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.”

Source : Christopher Morley (1925). “Forty-four Essays by Christopher Morley”

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