#tis

I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know. ↗

— Jean Houston

#accounts #artists #athletes #beings #believe

No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful. ↗

— George Boole

#also #appear #beautiful #being #being beautiful

The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #body-image #eating-disorders #self-esteem #society

The great artist is a slave to his ideals. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#great #his #ideals #slave

I have a pirate fetish - I just always thought eye patches were sexy. ↗

— Michelle Branch

#eye #fetish #i #just #patches

And since discriminating fans can pick and choose exactly what they want to buy, artists and their labels are more conscious than they've ever been of making sure that every song on a new album is as good as can be. ↗

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

#artists #been #buy #choose #conscious

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#itself #made #most #science #scientists

Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe! ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#artistic-training #education #liberal-arts #art

Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous. ↗

— William Wells Brown

#despotism #despots #divided #increases #more

Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect. ↗

— James Buchan

#baghdad #been #british #creeping #decline