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...indeed it is very true that, just as the finest air in the world is vulgarized beyond all bearing once the public has taken to hum it and the street organs to play it, so the work of art that has appealed to the sham connoisseurs, that is admired by the uncritical, that is not content to rouse the enthusiasm of only a chosen few, becomes for this very reason, in the eyes of the elect, a thing polluted, commonplace, almost repulsive. ↗


— Joris-Karl Huysmans


#discrimination #popular-art #popular-music #taste #art

If somebody's getting depressed in life, I would say, "Look at me'. I've got here believing in me. Sometimes, things do not go as you expected and you could feel as if you were ruining everything. But Everything can be only the path to get to the success of your dream. You can not fail until you give up. As long as you keep going, you are on the path for your success. ↗


— Hiroko Sakai


#artist #challenge #courage #depression #inspiration

Wherever I wander off to, when I draw, when I paint, I get my life back. I am lucky that I am an Artist. ↗


— Hiroko Sakai


#artist #life #art

The more I drive myself into the depth of my inside, the more things come up to my vision, visibly or invisibly... I even do not know if I am seeing them with my eye or with my mind. I just need to copy them on my canvases. But this mental process is always overwhelming. I often have hard time to deal with my emotion on this state. You could call this depression on surface? But actually, so many 're-birth' and 'reform' are going on on my thoughts, inspiration, philosophy...etc in the underwater. I believe this struggle make my art real. My art always comes from my emotion. ↗


— Hiroko Sakai


#artist #emotion #eye #inspiration #painting

The privilege of struggling artists is ... the life being buried in what we can't really afford of* what a gorgeous life!! ↗


— Hiroko Sakai


#artist #life #life-of-artist #starving-artist #struggling-artist

Yet the Narrator’s quest is not only for his own identity and vocation. He seeks an understanding of art, sexuality and worldly and political affairs: he is a snoop and a voyeur; he comments and classifies; his taxonomic impulse makes the novel appear to be a vast compendium, replete with burrowing wasps and bedsteads, military strategies, stereoscopes, asparagus and aeroplanes. ↗


— Adam A. Watt


#gnothi-seauton #know-thyself #knowledge #proust #art

...so bear in mind that majorities, especially respectable ones, are nine times out of ten in the wrong; and that if you see man or boy striving earnestly on the weak side, however wrong-headed or blundering he may be, you are not to go and join the cry against him. If you can't join him and help him, and make him wiser, at any rate remember that he has found something in the world which he will fight and suffer for.... ↗


— Thomas Hughes


#underdog #respect

...For it began to occur to him that one way to become private was to respect another's privacy. ↗


— Jane Yolen


#respect

There is nothing more soul destroying than respectable selfishness ↗


— Stan Almendro


#respect

How then can we deal with our tendency toward worldliness? It is *not* by determining that we will not be worldly, but by committing ourselves to becoming more godly. ↗


— Jerry Bridges


#jerry-bridges #respectable-sins #worldliness #respect






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