Dea T.

Rather than creating walls to hold everything out, ideas, skills and knowledge need to intersect. The cross-pollination will bring forth the needed material to proceed on the path. Mastery for them can look like pursuing multiple subjects at once or diving deeply into one for a season and then shifting focus to another.

“love is never any better than the lover. wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly... the lover alone possesses his gift of love. the loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover’s inward eye.” ― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

The artist is distinguished from all other responsible actors in society — the politicians, legislators, educators, and scientists — by the fact that he is his own test tube, his own laboratory, working according to very rigorous rules, however unstated these may be, and cannot allow any consideration to supersede his responsibility to reveal all

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