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“Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.”

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Spanish painter, considered one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Miro is known for his unique surrealistic style and use of color, blending abstract and figurative elements in his works, creating a dreamlike atmosphere. more

“What is natural does not have to be a representation of something. I'm now working on a thing that is a reconstruction of a starry sky, and yet I'm making it without a given from nature. Someone who says he uses a theme from nature can be right, but also someone who says he uses nothing at all.”

Doe Use Given Natural Sky Theme Representation Reconstruction Starry Sky

Book:Mondrian: the art of destruction

Source: Mondrian: the art of destruction

“The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with any spark of vitality.”

Ideas Results Numbers Teaching Subjects Sparks Passive Vitality Large Numbers Disconnected Small Parts Reception

Book:Aims of Education

Source: Aims of Education

“It is one of the defects of modern higher education that it has become too much a training in the acquisition of certain kinds of skill, and too little an enlargement of the mind and heart by an impartial survey of the world.”

World Mind Heart Kind Littles Certain Too Much Modern Higher Skills Training Defects Conquest Heart And Mind Acquisition Surveys Higher Education Enlargement

Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“This is the problem with the way you educate your children. You don't want your young ones drawing their own conclusions. You want them to come to the same conclusions that you came to. Thus you doom them to repeat the mistakes to which your own conclusions led you.”

Way Want Children Problem Young Mistake Our Children Drawing Conclusion Your Children Repeats Educate Doom Young Ones

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“There is no clear, commanding body of evidence that students' sustained use of multimedia machines, the Internet, word processing, spreadsheets and other popular applications has any impact on academic achievement.'”

Internet Achievement Evidence Application Academic

Author:Larry Cuban

“I started reading. I read everything I could get my hands on...By the time I was thirteen I had read myself out of Harlem. I had read every book in two libraries and had a card for the Forty-Second Street branch.”

Two Book Hands Reading Streets Library Cards Branches Forty Thirteen Harlem

Author:James A. Baldwin

“Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything.”

World Book Whole Use Feet Whole World Fees

Author:Benjamin Carson

“In seventh grade...I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.”

Ifs Book Would Be Found Library Grades Shelves Doubted Seventh Grade

Author:Beverly Cleary

“It was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read.”

Wells Teach Slave Unsafe Unlawful

Book:Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic

Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic

“I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.”

Ifs Needs Children Book Past Brain Fine Civilization Convinced Tunes Collectives Children's Books

Book:Talktalk: a children's book author speaks to grown-ups

Source: Talktalk: a children's book author speaks to grown-ups

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