The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters - because we never know which things might.
Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.
If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a 'spinster of arts' degree they would see how important this is.
Think about the pressure to "pass" by lying about one's agethat familiar temptation to falsify a condition of one's birth oridentity and pretend to be part of a more favored group. Fair-skinned blacks invented "passing" as a term, Jews escaping anti-Semitism perfected the art, and the sexual closet continues the punishment, but pretending to be a younger age is probably the most encouraged form of "passing," with the least organized support for "coming out" as one's true generational self.
... the art of politics is to be ahead of your time--about six months will do it. Any more than that, and people forget you were there.
One of the things I understood from early on was that art was a symbol of systemic inequity.
In art, women could never get training. They couldn't get their work out into the world even when they could get training.
I believe that art has incredible power.
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