"Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art..."

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Source : Michael Kimmelman (2005). “The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa”, Penguin Press HC

Michael Kimmelman

#Education Quotes #Art Quotes #Lessons Quotes

“I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism.”
“My job is my own only land.”
“Guilt is petty; I am above guilt.”
“As unhealthy as I am, I'm weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.”
“The love that I got when I finally did start performing again was all that I needed to just get back out there. Just to know that people were out there and they missed me. That made all the difference.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Thereâ€™s something insupportable about being pissed with the one person on this planet that sends your adrenaline flowing to remind you that youâ€™re alive. Itâ€™s almost like weâ€™re mad because weâ€™ve been shocked out of our usual comatose state of being by feeling something for someone, for ourselves, for just a moment.”
“When we can't hold back, or set boundaries, on what comes from our lips, our words are in charge-not us. But we are still responsible for those words. Our words do not come from somewhere outside of us, as if we were a ventriloquist's dummy. They are the product of our hearts. Our saying, "I didn't mean that," is probably better translated, "I didn't want you to know I thought that about you." We need to take responsibility for our words. "But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken" (Matt. 12:36).”
“Above all, TRIBES is fun, and even kind of sexy... in that every round features an Opportunity for Reproduction, which is the main aim of the game, as it is in most of Nature”

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