„Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.“
— Seth Godin American entrepreneur, author and public speaker 1960
„People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.“
Fonte: The Second Sin (1973), p. 49.
Última atualização 4 de Junho de 2020. História
Thomas Szasz5
1920 - 2012Citações relacionadas
„It comes to me as a desire to have something in the world. And again to quote Blake, 'It is better to murder an infant in the cradle than to nurse an ungratified desire.'... You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen.... when you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things.“
— Carl Andre American artist 1935
Fonte: Artists talks 1969 – 1977, p. 15
„It is not enough to prove something, one has also to seduce or elevate people to it.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist 1844 - 1900
330
Daybreak — Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality (1881)
Contexto: It is not enough to prove something, one has also to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learn how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!
„People do not go into the company of their fellow-creatures for what would seem a very sufficient reason, namely, that they have something to say to them, or something that they want to hear from them; but in the vague hope that they may find something to say.“
— Florence Nightingale English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing 1820 - 1910
Cassandra (1860)
„A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and often by some happy accident counts with us for something more than its independent value.“
— Walter Pater essayist, art and literature critic, fiction writer 1839 - 1894
Fonte: Marius the Epicurean http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/8mrs110.txt (1885), Ch. 6
„As my mom has said, when one person is unhappy, it usually means two people are unhappy but that one has not come to terms with it yet.“
— Mindy Kaling, livro Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Fonte: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
„What happens is a continual surrender of himself as he is at the moment to something which is more valuable. The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.“
— T.S. Eliot, livro Tradition and the Individual Talent
Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)
„You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen.... when you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things.“
— Carl Andre American artist 1935
Fonte: Artists talks 1969 – 1977, p. 15
„Now turning to Writers in general. The urge to write is analysed as 50% Ambition, 45% Vanity and 5% something to say. This is rather drastic and later revised by a famous Author as 80% earning a living, 10% Vanity and 10% something to say. Though both may not be acceptable to all, yet using them as norms, one can classify to some extent the written effusions one reads. William Faulkner says he writes what people will believe and for that they will pay, as even a Writer has to make money.“
— Peter de Noronha Indian businessman 1897 - 1970
The Pageant of Life (1964), On Writers
„Music allows a person to express their deepest thoughts, thoughts that cannot be expressed with just words. I am often asked how I begin a song or develop a melody from nothing. That is the spiritual aspect of creating. Finding something deep within yourself that can only be created by you.“
— Bradley Joseph Composer, pianist, keyboardist, arranger, producer, recording artist 1965
Interview with Bradley Joseph, The Spiritual Significance Of Music, World Edition http://www.xtrememusic.org/world/joseph_bradley.pdf http://www.xtrememusic.org/new.html (from extrememusic.org) http://xtrememusic.org/world.html
„To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination — and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.“
— Bill Gates American business magnate and philanthropist 1955
Apple company event (October 1983) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J3FUOCRXPo
1980s
„To say that historical conditions made personal life possible, and with it the self-consciousness that allowed psychoanalysis to emerge, is to tell half the story: one also has to consider that the erotic impulse, ever pressing for satisfaction, had something to do with making the history that encouraged its expression.“
— Ellen Willis writer, activist 1941 - 2006
"Historical Analysis" http://journalism.nyu.edu/faculty/files/willis-zaretsky.pdf, Dissent (Winter 2005)
„Apartheid means: ‘something of your own’; the other word refers to something even greater, i. e. ‘development’, which implies ‘growth’. A human being should not regress if one undertakes a task. Through the work of one's hands something must come into being. This is creation; and development is growth by what one creates anew in a continuously flowing process. Therefore separate development means the kind of growth which one creates by means of own power and for the sake of yourself and your people.“
— Hendrik Verwoerd Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassination in 1966 1901 - 1966
Verwoerd in 1963, as quoted and translated by J. J. Venter in H.F. Verwoerd: Foundational aspects of his thought, Koers 64(4) 1999: 415–442
„A person likes to think of himself in a certain way, and when something happens that makes that no longer possible, you mourn the old self. The person you thought you were.“
— Laurell K. Hamilton Novelist 1963
Vampire Requiem, to Anita; p. 311
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Incubus Dreams (2004)
„One's present personality cannot share all the thoughts of one's older personalities — and yet it has some sense that they exist. This is one reason why we feel that we possess an inner Self — a sort of ever-present person-friend, inside the mind, whom we can always ask for help.“
— Marvin Minsky, livro Society of Mind
The Society of Mind (1987)
„One thing about martial arts: People can say this fight game is dangerous and its brutal but my mind is strong. I'm fit in body and mind and that's something that not a lot of other careers can give to a person.“
— Conor McGregor Irish mixed martial artist and boxer 1988
Setanta Sports interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaZQw3Dh0K0 (September 2014)
2010s, 2014
„All layers of the personality are 'conscious.' They simply operate like compartments, so that often one portion of the self is not aware of other portions.“
— Jane Roberts American Writer 1929 - 1984
Fonte: Seth, Dreams & Projections of Consciousness, (1986), p. 202
„To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It is the surrender of self to an ennobling work, an absolute subordination of personal advantages and of personal pleasures for the sake of truth and the welfare of others, and a willing acceptance of every disability which their interests may entail.“
— George C. Lorimer American minister 1838 - 1904
Fonte: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 169.
