There isn’t anyone you couldn’t love once you’ve heard their story.
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
if science is about solving the worlds problems, then maybe art is about accepting them
how terrifying and wonderful that you will never be what you once were
Simplicity is not an end in art, but we usually arrive at simplicity as we approach the true sense of things.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.
In California, everyÂthing is green! Not just one green, but all of them.
It makes sense that, having grown up doing everything on a computer, Gen Z-ers have a fuller understanding of the digital universe than analog dinosaurs do. The dinosaurs can say, âYou donât know what youâre missing,â but Gen Z-ers can say, âYou donât understand what youâre getting.â
There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain. It is hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin.
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
They look at my paintings and say, âMy four-year-old couldâve done that.â And I say, âYes. But could you?â
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
And then it is another day and another and another, but I will not go on about this because no doubt you too have experienced time.
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
It must be emphasised again and again that freedom does not involve spoiling the child. If a baby of three wants to walk over the table, you simply tell him he must not. He must obey, thatâs true. But on the other hand, you must obey when necessary. I get out of small childrenâs rooms if they tell me to get out
When I noted that he was a sponge for quotations, he turned grave and said, âIâm not a religious person, but I think Iâve concocted my own book of hymns.â
At Summerhill, play belongs to the child. We do not dress up learning situations so that the play will be âproductiveâ, we do not look on and evaluate what they might learn form this or that game. Our children just play â and they can do it pretty well all day if they want to.
âIf something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, try it for eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on,â he wrote. âEventually one discovers that itâs not boring at all but very interesting.âÂ
The word âloveâ is most often defined as a noun, yet all the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would all love better if we used it as a verb.
Wounded white people frequently can cover up their wounds, because they have greater access to material power.
One of the things white people gave us when they gave us integration was full access to the tormenting reality of desire, and the expectation of constant consumption.
Many think of punk as a style or a category or a thing, but itâs much more interesting if you think of it as a process, a way of doing things, a disposition, a spirit. (This is probably true of all movements.)
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.