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What we must think about is an agriculture with a human face. We must give standing to the new pioneers, the homecomers bent on the most important work for the next century - a massive salvage operation to save the vulnerable but necessary pieces of nature and culture and to keep the good and artful examples before us. It is time for a new breed of artists to enter front and center, for the point of art, after all, is to connect. This is the homecomer I have in mind: the scientist, the accountant who converses with nature, a true artist devoted to the building of agriculture and culture to match the scenery presented to those first European eyes.


Wes Jackson


#artist #culture #nature #art

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.


Charles Dickens


#opening-lines #life

I suppose I was artistic as a child. Our house was so full of art and artists that it never occurred to me not to be constantly making things. I just assumed that all kids liked to work with their hands as much as I did. I was an only child so I did have a lot of time to be creative by myself and with my parents.


Wendy Froud


#artistic #doll-making #growing-up #making-things #art

In my many years of working with people, I have never seen things change by chance, you have to work it out yourself.... life really sucks but YOU have what it takes to change it.


Nkem Mpamah


#personal-development #personal-growth #personal-performance #self-help #self-help-books

Cuando se nos enseñó a mirar con atención rincones y trozos insignificantes de la ciudad con el ojo fotográfico -una caja de fósforos junto a la rueda de un coche, un pedazo de puerta al sol, una pierna que sube la escalera-, comprendimos que nuestros ojos están ciegos.No nos sirven nada mas que como lazarillos para cruzar las calles, no tropezar con otros y ganarnos la vida.


Ezequiel Martinez Estrada


#fotografia-arte #art

I shook with cold and fear, without being able to answer. After a lapse of some moments, I was again called. I made an effort to speak, and then felt the bandage which wrapped me from head to foot. It was my shroud. At last, I managed feebly to articulate, 'Who calls?' 'Tis I' said a voice. 'Who art thou?' 'I! I! I!' was the answer; and the voice grew weaker, as if it was lost in the distance; or as if it was but the icy rustle of the trees. A third time my name sounded on my ears; but now it seemed to run from tree to tree, as if it whistled in each dead branch; so that the entire cemetery repeated it with a dull sound. Then I heard a noise of wings, as if my name, pronounced in the silence, had suddenly awakened a troop of nightbirds. My hands, as if by some mysterious power, sought my face. In silence I undid the shroud which bound me, and tried to see. It seemed as if I had awakened from a long sleep. I was cold. I then recalled the dread fear which oppressed me, and the mournful images by which I was surrounded. The trees had no longer any leaves upon them, and seemed to stretch forth their bare branches like huge spectres! A single ray of moonlight which shone forth, showed me a long row of tombs, forming an horizon around me, and seeming like the steps which might lead to Heaven. All the vague voices of the night, which seemed to preside at my awakening, were full of terror. ("The Dead Man's Story")


James Hain Friswell


#graveyard #horror #terror #art

For it is now to us itself ancient; and yet its maker was telling of things already old and weighted with regret, and he expended his art in making keen that touch upon the heart which sorrows have that are both poignant and remote.


J.R.R. Tolkien


#beowulf #loss #poignant #regret #sorrow

So throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.


Charles Dickens


#life

To live a life of gratitude is to open our eyes to the countless ways in which we are supported by the world around us.


Gregg Krech


#art

Open your eyes and see how many gifts there are to unwrap. Notice the presence of your presents. It’s not your life that is disappointing: it’s your mind.


Gregg Krech


#mindset #art






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