#cat

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art. ↗

A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity. ↗

For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#creativity #nietzsche #vocation #art

When we teach a child patience we offer them the gift of a dignified life. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#education #mindfulness #art

The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain. ↗

— John Adams

#liberty #architecture

Observe & accept what ever arises & know that everything is as it needs to be. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#compassion #education #self-help #art

Nothing snubs quite like a cat. What evolutionary purpose did it serve, this inherent disdain, this artful blanking? ↗

— Will Wiles

#art

She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons ↗

— Toni Morrison

#culture #poverty #art

...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know. ↗