"When the artist activates his being, awakens to his surroundings, and sets himself the task of creating, connections are made out of conscious awareness that return coalesced as inspiration."

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Source : Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

Eric Maisel

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“Pardon me, dear human self, capable of the most heinous degradation, capable of soaring.”
“Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.”

Source : Harriet Martineau (1838). “How to Observe: Morals and Manners”, p.85, Transaction Publishers
“To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.”
“Meat and poultry is safe. It's safer than it's probably ever been.”
“Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts.”
“The very general occurrence of the homosexual in ancient Greece, and its wide occurrence today in some cultures in which such activity is not taboo suggests that the capacity of an individual to respond erotically to any sort of stimulus, whether it is provided by another person of the same or opposite sex, is basic in the species.”

Source : Alfred C. Kinsey (1998). “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male”, p.660, Indiana University Press
“Jim Grimsley's unflinching self-examination of his own boyhood racial prejudices during the era of school desegregation is one of the most compelling memoirs of recent years. Vivid, precise, and utterly honest, How I Shed My Skin is a time-machine of sorts, a reminder that our past is every bit as complex as our present, and that broad cultural changes are often intimate, personal, and idiosyncratic.”
“The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.”

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