"There is no depth to education without art."

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Source : Amiri Baraka (2009). “Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music”, p.108, Univ of California Press

Amiri Baraka

#Art Quotes #Depth Quotes

“I think among the retired FBI agents there are some who would not like to see him come back, but I think the people running the FBI now are interested in catching him.”
“To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all.”

Source : Mark Epstein (2013). “The Trauma of Everyday Life”, p.19, Penguin
“Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce.”
“Sometimes desire is air, sometimes desire is liquid. And every now and then, when everything else is air and liquid, desire solidifies, and the body is the magnet that draws its weight.”
“Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.”
“As designers we have a great responsibility. I believe designers should eliminate the unnecessary. That means eliminating everything that is modish because this kind of thing is only short-lived.”

Source : "Looks familiar? Apple classics and their 1960s ancestors" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2008.
“For me to sit here and give all kinds of excuses to make it right, I can't do. But what I want to ask everyone out there, everyone that has a child, everyone that has a brother, a sister: if your child or family member was abducted today, if a mad man came in, a terrorist came in, abducted your family member or your child and if I said to you I can bring your child home...does it matter how I bring them home?”
“I genuinely believe that we will look back on today as a landmark for equality in Britain ... No matter who you are and who you love, we are all equal. Marriage is about love and commitment, and it should no longer be denied to people just because they are gay.”

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