"The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!"

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Source : "The Origins of Creativity". Book by Karl H. Pfenninger, ‎Valerie R. Shubik, ‎Bruce Adolphe (p. 50), 2001.

Auguste Rodin

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“If you are in Christ, you've been chosen to transcend the borders of your own glory, to reach out toward a greater glory, the glory of God.”
“You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do.”

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“It is my feeling that as we grow older we should become not less radical but more so. I do not, of course, mean this in any political-party sense, but rather in a willingness to struggle for those things in which we passionately believe. Social activism and the struggle for social justice are often thought of as the natural activities of the young but not of the middle-aged or the elderly. In fact, I don't think this was ever true.”
“It seems to be a natural consequence of our points of view to assume that the whole of space is filled with electrons and flying electric ions of all kinds.”

Source : Kristian Birkeland (1908). “The Norwegian Aurora Polaris Expedition 1902-1903”
“Sometimes I think you'll be fine by yourself Cause a dream is a wish you make all alone; It's easy to feel like you don't need help, But it's harder to walk on your own...”
“When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements.”

Source : Edward Thorndike (2017). “Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies”, p.320, Routledge
“The sad thing is that somehow, it is a type of event that mirrors the artist. You take it into account, and you're reminded in this specific case what the artist's work is about, what his life is like, and how life mirrors art.”
“When couples start a family, they give up their personal love to achieve a greater responsibility - to nurture their children into good human beings. Nothing should deter them from that goal until the kids are up on their own feet”

Source : "Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2002.

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