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Mi čitamo knjige zato da bismo čitanjem proširili granice svog ličnog iskustva. Ako nam knjiga u tom pogledu ne daje apsolutno ništa, nijednog novog fakta, nijednog samostalnog pogleda, nijene originalne ideje, ako ničim ne pokreće i ne podstiče našu misao, mi takvu knjigu nazivamo praznom i ništavnom, bez obzira na to da li je pisana u prozi ili stihu, i uvek smo spremni da autoru takve knjige sa iskrenom dobronamernošću posavetujemo da se lati pravljenja čizama ili pečenja bureka. ↗

— Dimitri I. Pisarev

#literature #literature-writing #art

I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art. ↗

— P.D. James

#art

To help a friend is really good. To help yourself is also really good. To help a stranger is the very best. ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art

The less you think you know, the more will be known. It’s amazing what you can know when you let go of being the knower. ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art

• “Sometimes when things are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place.” Be patient. http://amzn.to/dMBLWW ↗

— Sukhraj Dhillon

#art

Na escola, a mediocridade vem regada à busca de novas teorias pedagógicas (normalmente com baixíssimo impacto ou possibilidade de verificação de suas premissas); na universidade, vem vestida de burocracia da produtividade e corporativismo de bando; na arte, nos discursos contemporâneos sobre a "destruição da forma". Modos distintos de "fazer nada" ocupando tempo e gerando institucionalização e papo-furado cheio de jargão técnico. ↗

— Luiz Felipe Pondé

#ensino #escola #mediocridade #professores #universidade

How lucky, I thought, were people who had known from earliest childhood what they wanted to do. All the children in my grammar school, who said they wanted to be doctors, had grown up to become doctors. This was also the case apparently with firemen, veterinarians, songwriters, and race car drivers. I had opted for a kind of pure experience, which, as Doo-Wah had pointed out, is not usually something you get paid for. I did not want to write a book about it. I did not want to write so much as an article. I wanted to be left alone with my experience and go on to the next thing, whatever that was. ↗

— Laurie Colwin

#laurie-colwin #vocationon #experience

This wobbly world host to insects and lint and a thousand pithy ways to feel unserious each minute It brings about a great softening of the mind, like the clouded edges of sea glass (this filter you could download and apply) A poultice or an opiate, rigidly individual. Alone and erasing sentences to splinters. (Poem No. 5) ↗

— Erin J. Watson

#life #mind #poems #poetry #world

Life is like a great art that you have to find with different colours to make it match your painting. ↗

— millicent morris robert

#art

Chus Martinez is a transsexual collective phantom. Anybody can be Chus Martinez! ↗

— Chus Martinez

#art-project #chus-martinez #multiple-identities #neoism #art