#chi

Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#art #dance #exaggeration #film #architecture

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#child #face #mother #nature #art

The only difference between a grown-up's mistake and a child's is the size of the consequence. ↗

— Teresa R. Funke

#courage #inspiration #mistakes #world-war-ii #courage

They vilify us, the scoundrels do, when there is only this difference; they rob the poor under the cover of law, forsooth, and we plunder the rich under the protection of our own courage; had ye not better make one of us, than sneak after the arses of those villains for employment? ↗

— Samuel Bellamy

#anarchy #class #employment #piracy #pirates

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching. ↗

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

#teacher #teaching #art

Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own skulls, we can begin to contemplate an art which re-creates the goal of the sorcerer: changing the structure of reality by the manipulation of living symbols ... Art tells gorgeous lies that come true. ↗

— Hakim Bey

#art #radical-theory #social-change #art

Art is a process, not a product. ↗

— MaryAnn F. Kohl

#creavity #early-childhood #education #art

In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#liberal-arts #machines #art

This was me before I knew about anything hard, when my whole life was packed lunches and art projects and spelling quizzes. ↗

— Nina LaCour

#innocence #memories #art

The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves. ↗

— Paulo Freire

#education #empowerment #teaching #art