"An artist gives. Gives visually, gives through courses, or with free advice, through generosity of spirit and through a need to share."

-- Veronica Roth

#Artist Quotes #Generosity Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Death is a new office building filled with modern furniture, A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us.”
“... home isn't always the place where you were born and bred. Home is the place where your everyday clothes are, and where somebody or something needs you.”

Source : Edna Ferber (1912). “Buttered side down: stories”
“Iâ€™ve always assumed that the abstract qualities of [my] photographs are obvious. For instance, I can turn them upside down and theyâ€™re still interesting to me as pictures. If you turn a picture thatâ€™s not well organized upside down, it wonâ€™t work.”
“Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world.”
“I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.”
“The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience ... to be influenced by reasonable arguments ... and the appeal to the emotions ... and especially the freedom to cease when sated. The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns.”

Source : Lawrence S. Kubie (1966). “Newurotic Distortion of the Creative Process”
“I just don’t want to come down to that level of society….the ones who sit by their televisions, drink their beer, their guts fat, vicariously living someone else’s life, in a destructive way. I want a positive way.”
“God is merely tuning the soul, as an instrument, in this life. And these joys of the Christian, are only the notes and chords that are sounded out in the preparation--preludes to the perfect harmony that shall flood the soul--forerunners of the perfected and rapturous joy that shall bless the soul, in that exceeding and eternal weight of glory.”

Source : Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”

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