"A child who thinks he can't do anything on his own eventually can't."

-- Lenore Skenazy

#Children Quotes #Women Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.”
“I usually find that the process of discovery is more interesting than the answers.”
“Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.”
“I certainly have more enthusiasm when I'm dealing with marginalized people in Japan, and as a creative person I am part of that marginalization.”
“Debate doesnâ€™t really change things. It gets you bogged in deeper. If you can address or reopen the subject with something new, something from a different angle, then there is some hope. ... People are suddenly gazing at something else and pausing for a moment. And for the duration of that gaze and pause, they are like reflectors of the totality of their own knowledge and/or ignorance. Thatâ€™s something poetry can do for you, it can entrance you for a moment above the pool of your own consciousness and your own possibilities.”
“I tell you, I was as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockers!”
“Get your popcorn ready, 'cause I'm gonna put on a show.”
“Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !), then photography and art are the same thing.”

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