An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
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An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.
And every true artist is the salvation of every other. But only artists produce for each other the world that is fit to live in.
There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.
I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.
It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.
There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders.
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