"Art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement."

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Source : Thomas Hoving (2011). “Art For Dummies”, p.38, John Wiley & Sons

Thomas Hoving

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“In the freshness of the present moment, past is gone, future is not yet born, andâ€”if one remains in pure mindfulness and freedomâ€”disturbing thoughts arise and go without leaving a trace. That is basic meditation.”
“Peace cannot be achieved except after the cessation of military escalation and the economic and financial siege.”
“We need deliberately to call to mind the joys of our journey. Perhaps we should try to write down the blessings of one day. We might begin; we could never end; there are not pens or paper enough in all the world.”
“What would be awful would be to die and look back miserably - seeing only the bad things, the opportunities missed, or what could have been.”
“God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best; and it is half ridiculous and half pitiful to see what importance we ascribe to it, and to its little ornaments and distinctions.”
“God's advice trumps Oprah's every time.”
“I think I was always a drama queen. I really, really, really loved playing pretend.”
“The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average.”

Source : "The Age of Educational Romanticism". The New Criterion, May 01, 2008.

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