"Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves."
@2 years ago
"Their art is one side of them. There is so much more. What you are getting is one tiny iota; the art, the document, the after-effect of what led up to a person becoming what they are."
@2 years ago
"Hundreds of thousands of people devote their lives from childhood to learning to twirl their legs rapidly (dancers), or to touch notes and strings very rapidly (musicians), or to draw with paint and represent what they see (artists), or to turn every phrase inside out and find a rhyme to every word. And these people, often very kind and clever, and capable of all sorts of useful labour, grow savage over their specialised and stupefying occupations and become one-sided and self-complacent specialists, dull to all the serious phenomena of life, and skilful at rapidly twisting their legs, their tongues, and their fingers."
@2 years ago with 83 notes
"One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it."
@2 years ago with 4 notes