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It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the only universe there is. I think it's healthy that people should have this experience. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#creativity #experience #psychedelics #visionary #art

For, to my mind, this is a certain principle, that nothing is here treated of but the visible form of the world. He who would learn astronomy, and other recondite arts, let him go elsewhere. (on commenting the text of Genesis 1:6) ↗

— Jean Calvin

#astronomy #calvin #genesis #art

Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt ↗

— Christian Boltanski

#artist #death #sculpture #truth #art

Graffiti is an impulse to get recognized ↗

— Mint&Serf

#graffiti #street-art #vandalism #art

In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have. ↗

— Thomas More

#government #human-nature #peace #rulers #war

He dreamed big but understood that dreams become reality only when their champions are strong enough and wily enough to bend history to their purposes. ↗

— Jon Meacham

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Here's one from me: 'You have to be aware that everyone else is thinking far too hard about themselves to be thinking about you, whoever you are.' If you want it, you can have it. Once you know that, you can be free. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#artists #art

On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#creativity #art

We create our own reality. The blessing (or problem) with this is that when one creates one's own reality, one must live it! Are you living a blessing or is it a curse? ↗

— Gary R. Ryan

#aa #art #art-work #creativity #punishment

This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art. ↗

— James Baldwin

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