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"What is Art any way?

When I think of how hopelessly unable I am to answer that question I can not help feeling like a farce… Ill lose what little self respect I have — unless I can in some way solve the problem a little — give myself some little answer to it".

(Georgia O'Keeffe)

A marvellous article on the correspondence between the north-american...
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sailaway from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.Dream. Discover.”

(Mark Twain)

"You inhabit the light, you walk
On easy ground, the shining
Breezes of Heaven play
Around you, the blessed,
As lightly as the lyre–
Playing fingers of a girl.

Gods have no fate, they have
The sleeping infant's
Quiet breath;
Their spirits, kept
From spoiling in the bud,
Blossom for ever;
They have a still
Eternal clarity
Of gaze.

We have no footing anywhere,
No...
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"Oh! If the doors of your sanctuary should crumble by themselves
O Ceres, you who reigned in Eleusis!
Drunk with enthusiasm, I would
shiver with your nearness,
I would understand your revelations,
I would interpret the lofty meaning of the images, I would hear
the hymns at the 'gods' banquets,
the lofty maxims of their counsel.

Even your hall\vays have ceased to echo, Goddess!
The...
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"So we wanted to part? Thought it both good and wise?
Why, then, why did the act shock us as murder would?
Ah, ourselves we know little,
For within us a god commands.

Wrong that god? And betray him who created for us
Meaning, life, all we had, him who inspired and moved,
Who protected our loving,
This, this one thing I cannot do.

But...
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“The auto-telic experience, or flow, lifts the course of life to a different level. Alienation gives way to involvement, enjoyment replaces boredom, helplessness turns into a feeling of control, and psychic energy works to reinforce the sense of self, instead of being lost in the service of external goals. When experience is intrinsically rewarding life is justified in the present, instead of being held hostage...
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