April 2012
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Yeah. What she said.
“The riskiness of Art, the reason why it affects us, is not the riskiness of its subject matter, it is the risk of creating a new way of seeing, a new way of thinking… The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.”
from Art Objects, a collection of essays by Jeanette Winterson
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.”
– Pablo Picasso
“When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time. You’d be...”
– SPEAK, by Laurie Halse Anderson (aka moi)
The character who says this is the art teacher, Mr. Freeman. He is sort of my mouthpiece throughout the story.
According to Amazon, this is the most highlighted passage of the Kindle edition of the book.
“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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