Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
Interpretation
Original art challenges norms and inspires new perspectives.
This quote highlights the essence of original thought and artistic expression as inherently rebellious and questioning. It suggests that true creativity often involves breaking away from established conventions and norms, paving the way for new ideas and perspectives that challenge the status quo.
In practice
This quote can inspire students in an art class to embrace their unique vision and challenge conventional techniques.
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
faith without doubt is addiction
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.
If you're writing a detective novel or horror or sci-fi, you want to expand or reinvigorate the genre in your own little way.
I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.
In a strange way, architecture is really an unfinished thing, because even though the building is finished, it takes on a new life. It becomes part of a new dynamic: how people will occupy it, use it, think about it.
Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.
Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.
I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.
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