"Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small."

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Source : Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

Orison Swett Marden

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“The bizarre but all too common transformation of the woman artist from a producer in her own right into a subject for representation forms a leitmotif in the history of art. Confounding subject and object, it undermines the speaking position of the individual woman artist by generalizing her. Denied her individuality, she is displaced from being a producer and becomes instead a sign for male creativity.”

Source : Whitney Chadwick (2007). “Women, Art, and Society”
“My heart and soul is still music.”
“Faith is not the absence of doubt; it is continuing to follow Jesus in the midst of doubt.”
“It's good to be different.”
“Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture... like Van Gogh... so who's to say what's good and bad?”
“August Smith is a child telling the truth. Sometimes the truth is he has to listen to the voices of various creatures he's killed speak to him reproachfully, and he shares that with us, because wouldn't we all? Parties abound in this collection and reading it feels like being invited. You can tell Smith wants you there.”
“All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.”

Source : "Early Greek Philosophy" by John Burnet, (Ch. 6), 1920.
“I've always loved plastics and rubber, and it's such a specifically unique material that you have to have the manufacturing abilities to make it.”

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