"Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this."

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John Cage

#Art Quotes #Helping Quotes

“Berzelius' symbols are horrifying. A young student in chemistry might as soon learn Hebrew as make himself acquainted with them... They appear to me equally to perplex the adepts in science, to discourage the learner, as well as to cloud the beauty and simplicity of the atomic theory.”
“There is no creativity without vulnerability.”
“You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you canâ€™t. Itâ€™s important to stay the course. I donâ€™t think I would have lasted this long if Iâ€™d listened to anyone. You have to listen somewhat and then put that to the side and know that what you do matters.”

Source : "Annie Leibovitz On Getting The Shot–And The Future Of Photography". Interview with Rae Ann Fera, www.fastcompany.com. June 28, 2013.
“I'd moved to L.A. with my mother when I was 17 or 18. She loved show business and I was young enough that I had no idea what I wanted to do.”
“In sum, doubling is the psychological means by which one invokes the evil potential of the self. That evil is neither inherent in the self nor foreign to it. To live out the doubling and call forth the evil is a moral choice for which one is responsible, whatever the level of consciousness involved.”
“The things that I have loved have always been those extremes where there has been some kind of apocalypse in the person's life, and they come out unscathed or scathed.”

Source : "Indie author Scott McClanahan considers art and anecdote through 5 of his favorite books". Interview with Phil McCausland, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.
“Breakthrough happened around me when breakup happened within me.”
“Every fighter have a plan until he's been beaten”

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