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“When we are moved by art we are grateful that the artist lived, grateful that he labored in the service of his gifts.” quote by Lewis Hyde — Download Open image

“When we are moved by art we are grateful that the artist lived, grateful that he labored in the service of his gifts.”

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We are only alive to the degree that we can let ourselves be moved.

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What is it about a work of art, even when it is bought and sold in the market, that makes us distinguish it from . . . pure commodities? A work of art is a gift, not a commodity. . . works of art exist simultaneously in two “economies”, a market economy and a gift economy. Only one of these…

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“All cultures seem to find a slightly alien local population to carry the Hermes projection. For the Vietnamese it is the Chinese, and for the Chinese it is the Japanese. For the Hindu it is the Moslem; for the North Pacific tribes it was the Chinook; in Latin America and in the American South it is the Yankee. In Uganda…

The passage into mystery always refreshes. If, when we work, we can look once a day upon the face of mystery, then our labor…

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To be a great teacher, you can't simply be looking at how to earn your income. And with a priest or spiritual leader -…

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Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage.

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We forgive when we give up attachment to our wounds.

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All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by money, power, politics, and…

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Science may not be as intimate as the medical profession; nonetheless, it certainly is a community in which ideas are often shared as contributions,…

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Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and…

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“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.”

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The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and…

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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

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