"I like that feeling when youâ€™re making art, that youâ€™re taking the energy out of your body and putting it into a physical object. I like things that are labor-intensive : you make a little thing and another little thing and another little thing, and eventually you see a possibility."

-- Kiki Smith

#Art Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Energy Quotes

“I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness.”
“Everyone loves Disney, it just has a special place in everyone's heart”
“We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans didnt walk around Africa being black and proud, they walked around proud.”
“When you have a true ambition for something, you will not give up hope. Giving up hope is a sign that you are lacking ambition to achieve that goal!”
“The ignoring of differences is the most fatal mistake in politics or industry or international life: every difference that is swept up into a bigger conception feeds and enriches society; every difference which is ignored feeds on society and eventually corrupts it.”

Source : Mary Parker Follett (1918). “The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government”, p.40, Penn State Press
“We have a lowest-common-denominator Christianity being taught in so many denominations that has produced a people who simply do not know some of the most basic Christian truths.”
“Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.”

Source : William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.135
“Of course killing people is 'wrong', but I think history shows that sometimes it serves the greater good.”

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