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The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten. There is actually no place in this village for a work of fine art, if any had come down to us, to stand, for our lives, our houses and streets,
... See moreHenry David Thoreau • Walden (Illustrated)
you were just another cog, just the smallest possible pinion in the engine of global progress, one of mass culture’s million tiny underwriters, dispersing risk.” “And how was I doing that, exactly?” “It was your whole starving artist ethos, that whole rebel-without-a-cause motif. Back then, we really believed that the worst person in the entire sou
... See moreNathan Hill • Wellness
Well then I think psychology after the Red Book has to be based on the fantasy image.
Sonu Shamdasani • Lament of the Dead
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Rainer Maria Rilke • Letters to a Young Poet
Micah Mattix • The Integrity of Poetry | Micah Mattix
The language of psychology today doesn’t convey any emotion or any beauty of the experience itself
Sonu Shamdasani • Lament of the Dead
Postmodern society has a surfeit of analysts and an impoverishment of artists.
Dee Hock • Autobiography of a Restless Mind: Reflections on the Human Condition Volume 2
to whom does the meaning of the art of the past properly belong?
John Berger • Ways of Seeing (Penguin Modern Classics)
The people who think of themselves as White have the choice of becoming human or irrelevant. Or—as they are, indeed, already, in all but actual fact: obsolete. For, if trouble don’t last always, as the Preacher tells us, neither does Power, and it is on the fact or the hope or the myth of Power that that identity which calls itself White has always
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