"As the ongoing industrial crusade to turn all earthly life to commercial purpose relentlessly impoverishes the biosphere and human culture, our living images of graceful possibility dwindle."

-- Stephanie Mills

#Ongoing Quotes #Culture Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“You are the reason. If you want, you are the answer in the end.”
“Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal.”
“The trick is to never lose hope!”
“â€Ž"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.”

Source : Thomas Merton (1976). “The Power and Meaning of Love”
“Don't punish yourselves for people's ignorant reactions to what we all are. Don't let ignorance win. Let love.”
“I think the arts has great potential to create citizens. Citizenship is about the direction your imagination travels. We can't plan or calculate or examine citizenship; it's an imagined thing. Community is an imagined thing. And if your imagination isn't working - and, of course, in oppressed people that's the first thing that goes - you can't imagine anything better. Once you can imagine something different, something better, then you're on your way.”
“The form of my painting is the content. My work is made of single or multiple panels: rectangle, curved, or square. I am less interested in marks on the panels than the 'presence' of the panels themselves. In Red Yellow Blue III the square panels present color. It was made to exist forever in the present; it is an idea and can be repeated anytime in the future.”
“[Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too.”

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