"It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and discipline to make good work out of the life, whether that goodness is in the world's aesthetics, its radicalism, its candor, its singularity, or its universality."

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Source : Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.132, Island Press

Stephanie Mills

#Responsibility Quotes #Artist Quotes #Work Out Quotes

“you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for”
“There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.”
“Without a purpose, nothing should be done.”
“There are no conventional games involving conditions of uncertainty without risk.”

Source : "Johannes Gutenberg printed playing cards the same year as his famous Bible (1440). The cards from Gutenberg's press were Tarot cards, from which the modern deck is derived. The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.
“The intelligentsia has disdained commerce throughout Western history.”
“When I returned to short stories, I'd started working on what is still central to much of what I try to do: putting myself in the place of the alien rather than describing it from an outside point of view.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com
“When there is a conflict, which group's sense of right and wrong should prevail? If a morality is a system that allows individuals to form a group and to get along with each other, then the challenge is to devise a system that allows different groups to get along - what I call a meta-morality.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“Scientific research involves going beyond the well-trodden and well-tested ideas and theories that form the core of scientific knowledge. During the time scientists are working things out, some results will be right, and others will be wrong. Over time, the right results will emerge.”

Source : "CERN or Einstein? Interpreting the Findings" by Lisa Randall, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2011.

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