#ect

This assumption of the intrinsically repressive nature of collective experience and redemptive power of individuation is a staple of contemporary art theory and criticism. I would argue that a closer analysis of collaborative and collective art practices can reveal a more complex model of social change and identity, one in which the binary oppositions of divided vs. coherent subjectivity, desiring singularity vs. totalizing collective, liberating distanciation vs. stultifying interdependence, are challenged and complicated. ↗

— Grant H. Kester

#collaborative #contemporary #modernism #practice #subjectivity

One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them. ↗

— Lorrie Moore

#protect #shelter #life

There are two things we should always be 1. raw and 2. ready. When you are raw, you are always ready and when you are ready you usually realize that you are raw. Waiting for perfection is not an answer, one cannot say "I will be ready when I am perfect" because then you will never be ready, rather one must say "I am raw and I am ready just like this right now, how and who I am. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#courage #inspiration #inspirational #inspirational-attitude #inspirational-life

Anyone who teaches me deserves my respect, honoring and attention. ↗

— Sonia Rumzi

#attitude #honor #respect #teach #teacher

ones fear of rejection is ones fear of love. ↗

— alexandria honey

#love #rejection #love

But when two people feel something, they ought to respect that enough to figure it out ↗

— Nora Roberts

#respect #love

It is when you lose sight of yourself, that you lose your way. To keep your truth in sight you must keep yourself in sight and the world to you should be a mirror to reflect to you your image; the world should be a mirror that you reflect upon. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational-attitude #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes #mirror #reflections

Oh it's the bingo playing wizard I love you guys so much, but not as much as my bird and my bingo! ↗

— Louis Tomlinson

#kevin #one-direction #quickfire #love

Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer. ↗

— Patrick O'Brian

#unrequited-love #wallowing #love

Whether you teach or live in the cloister or nurse the sick, whether you are in religion or out of it, married or single, no matter who you are or what you are, you are called to the summit of perfection: you are called to a deep interior life perhaps even to mystical prayer, and to pass the fruits of your contemplation on to others. And if you cannot do so by word, then by example. Yet if this sublime fire of infused love burns in your soul, it will inevitably send forth throughout the Church and the world an influence more tremendous than could be estimated by the radius reached by words or by example. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#faith #love #perfection #prayer #faith