"At the very least, participatory involvement with the many forms of art can enable us to see more in our experience, to hear more on normally unheard frequencies, to become conscious of what daily routines have obscured, what habit and convention have suppressed."

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Source : Maxine Greene (1995). “Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change”, Jossey-Bass

Maxine Greene

#Art Quotes #Habit Quotes #Conscious Quotes

“I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.”
“I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that's almost happening, never quite totally happening.”
“Let us realize that engagement and detachment aren't opposite-the more engaged we become, the more detached we will have to be..”
“Secrecy is for losers. . . . It is time to dismantle government secrecy, this most persuasive of Cold War-era regulations. It is time to begin building the supports for the era of openness that is already upon us.”
“We are all shades of gray. Its been said again and again; Lifes a process we are fleeting moments that come and go, and I'm grateful for my time, my aspirations, my mistakes, my flaws and my abilities, think of me what you will but before you do, don't.”
“If I have a hope, it's that God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me, specifically, into the story and put us in with the sunset and the rainstorm as though to say, â€œEnjoy your place in my story. The beauty of it means you matter, and you can create within it even as I have created you.â€”

Source : Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.59, Thomas Nelson Inc
“You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.”
“When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.”

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