"The role of the artist is like that of an explorer and a teacher - a teacher of seeing. No one is more capable of conveying this enlightenment than the artist."

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Ken Danby

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“I hate negative songs; I won't sing them. It doesn't matter if it's sold 2 million more albums.”
“The soul grows into lovely habits as easily as into ugly ones, and the moment a life begins to blossom into beautiful words and deeds, that moment a new standard of conduct is established, and your eager neighbors look to you for a continuous manifestation of the good cheer, the sympathy, the ready wit, the comradeship, or the inspiration, you once showed yourself capable of. Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.”

Source : Kate Douglas Wiggin (2015). “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm”, p.146, Booklassic
“I don't recall being excited about a new rapper, ever.”
“It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone.”
“I don't pose as an authority on anything at all, I follow the opinions of the ordinary people I meet, and I take pride in the close-knit teamwork with my organization.”
“There is a beautiful expression of this in the Chandogya Upanishad: 'There is this City of Brahman, (that is the body), and in this city there is a shrine, and in that shrine there is a small lotus, and in that lotus there is a small space, (akasa). Now what exists within that small space, that is to be sought, that is to be understood.' This is the great discovery of the Upanishads, this inner shrine, this guha, or cave of the heart, where the inner meaning of life, of all human existence, is to be found.”
“Heroes aren't born, they' re cornered. Oh, I was cornered. And I found out that I was no hero.”
“It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore.”

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