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Love And Courage in The Artist
The knowledge of the heart is in no book and is not to be found in the mouth of any teacher, but grows out of you like the green seed from the dark earth.
~ C. G. Jung
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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical human forces.
~Hannah Arendt
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“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
- Howard Thurman
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“To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Truth cannot be given to you by somebody. You have to discover it; and to discover there must be a state of mind in which there is direct perception.
— Krishnamurti
In a world obsessed with power and status, technique is more important than simple love in action. But to make art, you need love and the courage to follow what you love as you try to make your way in a culture of quick-and-easy. Making art, like making a life of…
