"All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by money, power, politics, and luck. And even should the artist or scientist think she has extracted herself from the world to stand alone in the studio, a tremendous array of faculties and mind-states may well attend her creativity."

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Source : Lewis Hyde (2010). “Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership”, p.5, Macmillan

Lewis Hyde

#Creativity Quotes #Artist Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I wouldn't be who I am without my husband, who handled the business end of Donna Karan so I could be creative.”
“I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.”
“They played Boston. They played at the Boston Tea Party and through an amazing chain of events I got to hang out with them backstage even though I was underage.”
“My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later.”
“Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.”
“look, you know i don't wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn't make it. You know, like they might as well have asked some banana salesman from des moines, who was up in toronto on the big day, if he saw anyone around looking suspicious/...”
“I'm highly emotional, so I'm highly aware of humiliation.”
“Our feelings about how we're feeling are notoriously unreliable.”

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