#w

The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety. ↗

— Josh Waitzkin

#personal-growth #art

It's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart. ↗

— Joel Coen

#o-brother-where-art-thou #art

...a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#asia #jaywalking #art

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#writing #art

Infinite Jest not only says that being human is hard work; it makes us work hard. It not only suggests we put ourselves in service to something larger than ourselves; it is one of those larger somethings. That's its rhetorical genius, and is how Wallace gets his self-help “to fly at such a high altitude”: Like AA, it is theory and praxis in a single stroke. Or: It is what it says, which may be the purest form of art. ↗

— Garth Risk Hallberg

#infinite-jest #art

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#been #close #done #ever #everything

Here's another test. Of any activity you do, aks yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it? ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#writing #art

Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry. ↗

— Aberjhani

#art-and-the-soul #creative-genius #creativity #famous-quotes-by-famous-poets #mirrors

It was amazing what an hour with her sketchpad could do for her mood. She was sure that the lines she drew with her black marker were going to save her years of worry lines in the future. ↗

— Victoria Kahler

#creativity-work #drawing #sketching #art

Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it. ↗

— Frédéric Bastiat

#law #legislation #liberty #man #politics