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Pioneering Psychologist Jerome Bruner on Art as a Mode of Knowing and Its Four Psychological Aspects
“Whoever reflects recognizes that there are empty and lonely spaces between one’s experiences.”
The Little Red Schoolbook: An Honest Vintage Guide to Teenage Sexuality, Education Reform, and Independent Thinking
“Leaders remain leaders only as long as you let them.”
James Baldwin on the Creative Process and the Artist’s Responsibility to Society
“A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.”
Chinua Achebe on the Meaning of Life and the Writer’s Responsibility in the World
The difference between blind optimism and the urge to improve the world’s imperfection.
Why the Best Roadmap to an Interesting Life is the One You Make Up as You Go Along: Daniel Pink’s Commencement Address
“Sometimes, the only way to discover who you are or what life you should lead is to do less PLANNING and more LIVING — to burst the double bubble of comfort and convention and just DO stuff.”
William Faulkner on Writing, the Human Dilemma, and Why We Create: A Rare 1958 Recording
“It’s the most satisfying occupation man has discovered yet, because you never can quite do it as well as you want to, so there’s always something to wake up tomorrow morning to do.”
The Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and the Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long
“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today… The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”
Werner Herzog on Creativity, Self-Reliance, and How to Make a Living Doing What You Love
“If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.”
Artist Francis Bacon on the Role of Suffering and Self-Knowledge in Creative Expression
“An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.”
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