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Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#ministry #work #art

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art. ↗

— Claude Debussy

#make #rules #works

In reference to Einstein's definition of insanity... No Mr. Einstein, that is not insanity, that is autism. ↗

— Eileen Miller

#asd #autism #outsider-art #art

In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same cage sort of, vibrating. So, I think as a writer, I'm really never sure of what I really believe. ↗

— George Saunders

#contradiction #ideas #wisdom #writing #art

Don't make it new; make it whole. ↗

— Alex Ross

#music #art

Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him. ↗

— Constantin Stanislavski

#artist #art

Nowadays, performers worry too much about how they look. They're not concerned about what they're really saying to their audience. ↗

— Gloria Trevi

#audience #concerned #how #look #much

Great teachers had great personalities and that the greatest teachers had outrageous personalities. I did not like decorum or rectitude in a classroom; I preferred a highly oxygenated atmosphere, a climate of intemperance, rhetoric, and feverish melodrama. And I wanted my teachers to make me smart. A great teacher is my adversary, my conqueror, commissioned to chastise me. He leaves me tame and grateful for the new language he has purloined from other kings whose granaries are filled and whose libraries are famous. He tells me that teaching is the art of theft: of knowing what to steal and from whom. Bad teachers do not touch me; the great ones never leave me. They ride with me during all my days, and I pass on to others what they have imparted to me. I exchange their handy gifts with strangers on trains, and I pretend the gifts are mine. I steal from the great teachers. And the truly wonderful thing about them is they would applaud my theft, laugh at the thought of it, realizing they had taught me their larcenous skills well. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#passion #teaching #art

What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die? ↗

— Christopher Marlowe

#faustus #tragedy #art

What a comfort to know that God is a poet. ↗

— Rachel Held Evans

#christianity #god #poetry #art