"If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a Western educational context - a Socrates who is never content with the initial superficial response, but is always probing for finer distinctions, clearer examples, a more profound form of knowing. Our concept of knowledge has changed since classical times, but Socrates has provided us with a timeless educational goal - ever deeper understanding."

-- Howard Gardner

#Educational Quotes #Teaching Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.”

Source : "The Bridling of Pegasus: Prose Papers on Poetry". Book by Alfred Austin, 1910.
“As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.”

Source : Bridget Riley (2009). “The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009”
“These little grey cells. It is up to them.”
“What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint.”

Source : Joyce Cary (1985). “Triptych”, Penguin Classics
“It pleased the Almighty, to whose great will Holy Will I submit myself with Christian submission.”
“I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.”
“The path of your life can change in an instant.”

Source : "The Life Before Her Eyes", www.imdb.com. 2007.
“It's absolutely irrelevant what galleries and critics and people who buy your paintings think. They just don't have any possible idea of what happens to you and they're really not that interested. As a matter of fact, they hate the idea that anything really happens to you. They want you to be a genius and that's it.”

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