"The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response."

-- Mary Gaitskill

#Art Quotes #Writing Quotes #Empathy Quotes

“Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.”
“When I was drawing this, I thought Iâ€™d put together Sailor Saturn and Sailor Chibi-Moon in a pair. Then I followed it with the Sailor Quartet. One of these days Iâ€™m going to put this team together into the manga. What a weird thing that would be. Anyway, hereâ€™s the six.”
“It is not art in the professionalized sense about which I care, but that which is created sacredly, as a result of a deep inner experience, with all of oneself, and that becomes 'art' in time.”

Source : Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothy Norman (1976). “Alfred Stieglitz”
“There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities - potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry - that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.”
“You are what your record says you are.”

Source : Bill Parcells, Nunyo Demasio (2014). “Parcells: A Football Life”, p.454, Crown Archetype
“I believe as musicians and artists we have an obligation to our souls. What that is? Only each one of us knows. I can speak for myself and say my obligation is to be happy. When I'm happy, I make great music. When I'm unhappy and my heart is broken, I may make brokenhearted music, but it still sounds good.”
“Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the discussion”
“When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.”

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