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“The woman who needs to create works of art is born with a kind of psychic tension in her which drives her unmercifully to find a way to balance, to make herself whole. Every human being has this need: in the artist it is mandatory. Unable to fulfill it, he goes mad. But when the artist is a woman she fulfills it at the expense of herself as a woman.”

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Book:From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton

Source: From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton

“Mature art, I think, emerges when there's a certain balance of tensions, when there's neither neurotic prostration nor cold rationality, but an aura of energy and a drive to grasp personal "truths" still emerging into perception. To grasp and to shape them.”

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Book:The cow jumped over the moon: the writing and reading of poetry

Source: The cow jumped over the moon: the writing and reading of poetry

“White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.”

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Author:Stephen Sondheim

“I'd love if people relearned the lessons of the 20th century all over again. Which is to say this country progressed economically and socially when we had a better balance between capital and labor. Neither capital or labor won every argument. The battle between the two created economic tension, and transformed the working class into the middle class, and grew the economy.”

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Author:David Simon

“How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships.”

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Book:Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues