"For the slow labor of realizing a potential……" — Lewis Hyde
"For the slow labor of realizing a potential gift the artist must retreat to those Bohemias, halfway between the slums and the library, where life is not counted by the clock and where the talented may be sure they will be ignored until that time, if it ever comes, when their gifts are viable enough to be set free and survive in the world."
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Lewis Hyde
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18 Quotes by Lewis Hyde
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An essential portion of any artist’s labor is not creation so much as invocation. Part of the work cannot be…
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The passage into mystery always refreshes. If, when we work, we can look once a day upon the face of…
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True citizens are not the audience of their government, nor its consumers; they are its makers.
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Uncovering secrets is apocalyptic in the simple sense (the Greek root means ‘an uncovering’). In this case, it lifts the…
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The gift moves towards the empty place. As it turns in its circle it turns towards him who has been…
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Art does not organize parties, nor is it the servant or colleague of power. Rather, the work of art becomes…
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We forgive when we give up attachment to our wounds.
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