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“Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.”
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“War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.”
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“I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from heaven. But a 'mistake' is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the way I intend, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.”
Source : Hugh Prather (1983). “Notes to Myself”, Bantam
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“Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life.”
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“If you intend to make a living at drawing, by all means learn it [the rules of perspective] now, and do not have them bothering you and your work for the rest of your life.”
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“I work out of silence, because silence makes up for my actual lack of working space. Silence substitutes for actual space, for psychological distance, for a sense of privacy and intactness. In this sense silence is absolutely necessary.”
Source : Radka Donnell (1990). “Quilts as women's art: a quilt poetics”, Gallerie Pubns
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“To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.”
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“You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.”
Source : Sheila Heti (2012). “How Should a Person Be?: A Novel from Life”, p.98, Macmillan
