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The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through that vast forest, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place.

Maria Popova • James Baldwin on the Creative Process and the Artist’s Responsibility to Society

~ James Baldwin

Listening is a neglected social skill. But I know that an even more neglected social skill is candor.

Sasha Chapin • 50 Things I Know

“It is important to use your hands. That is what distinguishes you from a cow or a computer operator.”

Paul Rand: Conversations with Students

Don’t try to be original. Just try to be good.

“Don’t try to be original. Just try to be good.” Paul Rand

~ Paul Rand

I once read that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. I fundamentally disagree with this idea. I think that doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of hope. We might keep making mistakes but the struggle gives us a sense of empathy and connecti

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

~ John Muir

https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780191843730.001.0001/q-oro-ed5-00012574

Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love.

~ Simone Weil

https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/08/19/simone-weil-attention-gravity-and-grace/

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

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~ Albert Einstein

There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

Bertrand Russell - Wikiquote

~ Bertrand Russell