"Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper."

-- Adriaan Kortlandt

#Beautiful Quotes #Sunset Quotes #Animal Quotes

“The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.”

Source : Herbert C. Lust, Alberto Giacometti, Aprile Gallant, Portland Museum of Art (2000). “Alberto Giacometti”
“To anyone who's trying to be an artist, in any medium, it's a very odd and lonely and nerve-wracking and scary process when you let anybody see what you're working on. You have to learn to listen to your instincts. Absorb other people's advice, opinions, or whatever it may be from the outside world, but at the end of the day, you have to be true to whatever it is that you're trying to say in that work.”
“We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.”
“If something works for another school, use it. Don't act like you are too good to use other ideas”
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”

Source : "Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy". Book by Joseph P. Lash, 1980.
“But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.”
“There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.”

Source : FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Jan 29, 2012
“The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.”

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