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“Artists don’t get down to work until the pain of working is exceeded by the pain of not working.”

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Stephen De Staebler was an American artist renowned for his unique glass art. His works combined elements of modernism and postmodernism, profoundly influencing contemporary art. more

“Clay can be a metaphor for many things. I made it a metaphor for flesh and earth, and these are two kinds of generic givens of life, if you look at it poetically, biblically, the idea of the life of beings, of man, being transitory, the earth abides-ashes to ashes, dust to dust-man returns to earth, grows out of earth like a flower, wilts, goes back to the earth... We are frail, transitory creatures with aspirations of immortality, conscious of our inevitable death, and we have to deal with it somehow.”

“When teachers stop learning, so do students.”

Teacher Students

Book:Unmistakable Impact: A Partnership Approach for Dramatically Improving Instruction

Source: Unmistakable Impact: A Partnership Approach for Dramatically Improving Instruction

“You've got to stop whipping a dead horse sometime.”

Horse Whipping Beating A Dead Horse

Author:Jim Knight

“I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.”

Certain Actors Emotion Easier Access

Author:William Mapother

“It's my experience that you first feel the impulse to write in your chest. It's like falling in love, only more so. It feels like something criminal. It feels like unspeakably wild sex. So, think: When you feel the overpowering need to go out and find some unspeakably wild sex, do you rush to tell your mom about it?”

Thinking Needs Feels Writing Firsts Fall Sex Mom Falling In Love Criminals Impulse Chests Like Something Your Mom Overpowering

Author:Carolyn See

“I’ve started thinking about pure electronic music again. Something very melodic, very aggressive.”

Thinking Pure Aggressive Electronic Music

Author:Squarepusher

“People have often assumed that for music to be emotionally powerful it has to come directly from a human hand, whereas I disagree with that, and enjoy proving these people wrong. This project is an excellent way of exploring that area more.”

People Way Humans Hands Enjoy Powerful Prove Projects Areas Excellent Disagree Exploring Human Hands

Author:Squarepusher

“There are other things that contribute to health besides a balanced diet. There are fresh air and sunlight and lack of nervous tension.”

Air Nervous Diets Tension Balanced Sunlight Fresh Air Balanced Diet

Book:The forest years: containing in one volume We took to the woods [and] My neck of the woods

Source: The forest years: containing in one volume We took to the woods [and] My neck of the woods

“Mainiacs away from Maine are truly displaced persons, only half alive, only half aware of their immediate surroundings. Their inner attention is always preoccupied and pre-empted by the tiny pinpoint on the face of the globe called Down East. They try to live not in such a manner that they will eventually be welcomed into Paradise, but only so that someday they can go home to Maine.”

Trying Persons Home Faces Attention Half Alive East Tiny Paradise Someday Globes Surroundings Maine

Book:State o' Maine

Source: State o' Maine

“This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education. One submits oneself to other minds (teachers) in order to increase the chance that one will be looking in the right direction when a comet makes its sweep through a certain patch of sky.”

Mind Certain Order Chance Path Teacher Sky Increase Oneself Impulse Willingness Submit Location Patches Right Direction Comets

Book:On Beauty and Being Just

Source: On Beauty and Being Just

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