"A man searching for enlightenment is like a man sitting on an Ass in search of an Ass"

-- Thomas Merton

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“The element of heroic maleness had always been present in the concept of the artist as one who rides the winged horse above the clouds beyond the sight of lesser men, a concept seldom applied to those who worked with colours until the nineteenth century. When the inevitable question is asked, "Why are there no great women artists?" it is this dimension of art that is implied. The askers know little of art, but they know the seven wonders of the painting world.”
“I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.”
“If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract them from making a difference and becoming leaders.”
“Music is indivisible. The dualism of feeling and thinking must be resolved to a state of unity in which one thinks with the heart and feels with the brain.”
“We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its National conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.There isnot a crime, there isnot a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.Get these things out in the open, describe them, attack them, ridicule them in the press, and sooner or later public opinion will sweep them away.”
“Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.”
“I used to wake up in the morning and say, 'Oh, God.' Now I wake up in the morning and look forward to life.”
“Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.”

Source : Interview With Kelli Acciardo, www.seventeen.com. April 15, 2011.

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