"This is the power of art: The power……" — Maria Popova
"This is the power of art: The power to transcend our own self-interest, our solipsistic zoom-lens on life, and relate to the world and each other with more integrity, more curiosity, more wholeheartedness."
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13 Quotes by Maria Popova
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Because it is possible to create - creating one's self, willing to be one's self - one has anxiety. One…
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When people tell you who they are, Maya Angelou famously advised, believe them. Just as importantly, however, when people try…
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I think you need to be a little in love—not necessarily in a romantic sense, although that helps—but to be…
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Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.
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Our chronic discomfort with ambiguity - which, ironically, is critical to both our creativity and the richness of our lives…
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In order for us to truly create and contribute to the world, we have to be able to connect countless…
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Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity. Ours is a culture that measures our worth as…
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Build pockets of stillness into your life.
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Curation is more than packaging-it is to help readers [discern] what is important in the world.
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Be curious. Be constantly, consistently, indiscriminatel y curious.
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Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is…
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Be generous with your time and your resources and with giving credit and, especially, with your words. It's so much…
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
— Darren Aronofsky
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
— Isaac Asimov
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