"The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest, not fashioned according to any precept or law. When times change, the carver too will change his style and make new trifles to hit the fancy of the passing day. But there is another kind of artist, who sets more soberly about his work, striving to give real beauty to the things which men actually use and to give to them the shape which tradition has ordained. This maker of real things must not for a moment be confused with the maker of idle toys."

Source : Murasaki Shikibu (2011). “The Tale of Genji”, p.61, Tuttle Publishing

Murasaki Shikibu

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“When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.”
“The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don't really seem to know any more about the game than the old ones did.”
“There is no one subsists by himself alone.”
“Ten years ago when I started out I was kind of told I was insane for trying to pursue multiple fields at once because in five years everyone who just did one would have five times the resume I would if I was lucky, but I took that gamble because I just my gut told me it was the right thing to do and you know as an actor there is so much downtime you want to fill it with something else and as a writer you know sometimes you're doing a passion project, sometimes it's a paid gig, sometimes there is nothing, so you can do a journalistic piece.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I'm here because I've been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that because I'm paying for someone else who has yet to come.”
“Once embarked on a course of sensationalism, the composer is forced into a descending spiral spin from which only the most experienced pilot can flatten out in time.”

Source : "Music, Ho!". Book by Constant Lambert, "Music and the Naughty 'Nineties", Hogarth Press edition, p. 64, 1985.
“Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of civilized human life.”

Source : Alan Keyes' Speech at Israel's Independence Day Festival Alan Keyes' Speech at Israel's Independence Day Festival in Los Angeles, California, www.keyesarchives.com. April 21, 2002.
“I want to thank my daughter, who told me, 'If you don't win, Dad, you're still good,' ... who taught me how to act.”

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