Vocation When Quotes by Lewis Hyde

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• We are each born into a situation-a particular body (its race, sex, health...), a set of ancestors, a community, a nation-and born…
• An essential portion of any artist’s labor is not creation so much as invocation. Part of the work cannot be made, it…
• The passage into mystery always refreshes. If, when we work, we can look once a day upon the face of mystery, then…
• All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by money, power,…
• For the slow labor of realizing a potential gift the artist must retreat to those Bohemias, halfway between the slums and the…
• Unlike the sale of a commodity, the giving of a gift tends to establish a relationship between the parties involved. When gifts…
• What is it about a work of art, even when it is bought and sold in the market, that makes us distinguish…
• True citizens are not the audience of their government, nor its consumers; they are its makers.

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