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I though you might enjoy these quotes that I will be handing out in class on Saturday. 

What spaces do they open up for you?

What new perspective?

QUOTES FOR THE CLASS

One of the surest tests [of the superiority or inferiority of a poet] is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest. – T.S. Eliot,

Good artists copy; great artists steal. – Picasso

Painting isn’t an aesthetic operation; it’s a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us. – Picasso A long, long time is needed to be young. — Picasso I like to live poor… but with a lot of money. — Picasso It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. — Picasso

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. – Picasso

There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who transform a yellow spot into the sun. – Picasso

We painted like children in the face of nature.  – Henri Matisse

When I started to paint, I felt transported into a kind of paradise. – Henri Matisse

My advice is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate. — Thornton Wilder.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.  – Buddha

In one of the spate of dance movies of a few years ago, the beautiful woman asks the gorgeous man, “Do you know how to dance?”

“I’m Cuban, of course, I know how to dance,” he says.

This response reminds me of something I read about Bali.

They have no word for artist.  And that is because, like the Cubans and dancing, they presume that if you are Balinese, of course, you are an artist.  – Reflections from William

Blessings,

William

P.S.  Speaking of great quotes here’s a magic message from Uncle Mike —

If you ask me, Www, I’d say the main thing to keeping the main thing the main thing, is reminding yourself as often as you can of where the most joy will come from.

         Ain’t no thing –

             The Universe

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