"The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life."

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Source : Dame Barbara Hepworth (1970). “A Pictorial Autobiography”

Barbara Hepworth

#Artist Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Community Quotes

“Jesus Christ said, 'I pray your faith will not fail.' This means your faith will be tested. What is testing your faith right now?”
“What stands in the way of effortless effort is caring, or a conscious attempt to do well.”

Source : Joe Hyams (2010). “Zen in the Martial Arts”, p.99, Bantam
“If kids grow kale, kids eat kale. If they grow tomatoes, they eat tomatoes. But when none of this is presented to them, if they're not shown how food affects the mind and the body, they blindly eat whatever you put in front of them.”
“No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.”

Source : "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.
“People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.”
“We love what we can't have, and we can't have what we love”

Source : "'We love what we can't have, and we can't have what we love'". Interview with Bryan Walsh, content.time.com. September 27, 2004.
“If you are complaining you can't be thinking about or creating what you do want.”
“I don't know. I just feel stuck, like I'm afraid to take any steps, in case they're the wrong ones.”

Source : Rebecca Stead (2010). “When You Reach Me/First Light”, p.134, Wendy Lamb Books

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