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"To acquire knowledge one must study, but to acquire wisdom, one must observe."

Marilyn vos Savant (1946 - )

"There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept."

Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984)

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought
which they seldom use."

Søren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard
at work worth doing."

Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)

"Creativity can solve almost any problem.
The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything."

George Lois

"The craftsman who strives for excellence is rewarded by a legacy,
and never-ending challenge."

Donald J. Lovvorn (customer)

"All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life."

M.C. Richards

"I shut my eyes in order to see."

Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)

"The life which is unexamined is not worth living."

Socrates (ca. 470 - 399 BC)

"There is more to life than increasing its speed."

Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

"We are soldiers and politicians today,
so that our children may be farmers and carpenters,
so that their children may be artists."

Norm Hunt (1929 - 1999), paraphrasing John Adams,
to his son Neil, his young apprentice.

"Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground."

Jelaluddin Rumi (1207 - 1273)

"After the tillage begins, the arts will follow."

Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852)

"Do not follow the masters, follow what the masters followed."

Unknown

"We have not inherited this earth from our ancestors.
We are only borrowing it from our children."

Ancient Proverb

"You should know now that a man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by what he will think when he has finished acting. A man of knowledge chooses a path with heart and follows it."

Carlos Castaneda (1925 (?) - 1998)
from "A Separate Reality"

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