Beauty is Our Birthright

Stéphanie Rew

I don’t know what to tell you. A statement is easy, and here it is: Be yourself. Try to matter. Be a good friend. Love freely, even if you are likely — almost guaranteed — to be hurt, betrayed. Do what you were created to do. You’ll know what this is, because it is what you keep creeping up to, peering at, dreaming of. Do it. If you don’t, you’ll be punching clocks and eating time doing precisely what you shouldn’t…

— Tennessee Williams/Interview with James Grissom

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I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me — the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art.

~ Anaïs Nin: The Diary of Anaïs Nin

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When a ray of white light impacts a prism, it separates out into its rainbow of colors. When a spark of pure enlightened truth impacts the intellectual intelligence it similarly breaks up into something similar, and we get all these different takes on the same thing….

— William Stimson

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