Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909) American novelist, short story writer and poet
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
“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.”
Source: The Second Sin (1973), p. 49.
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Carl Andre (1935) American artist
Source: Artists talks 1969 – 1977, p. 15
“A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
Ἀδικεῖ πολλάκις ὁ μὴ ποιῶν τι, οὐ μόνον ὁ ποιῶν τι.
IX, 5
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IX
“Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.”
Seth Godin (1960) American entrepreneur, author and public speaker
Chrétien de Troyes French poet and trouvère
Nus ne puet estre trop parliers
Qui sovent tel chose ne die
Qui torné li est affolie,
Car li sages dit et retrait:
Qui trop parole, il se mesfait.
Source: Perceval or Le Conte du Graal, Line 1650.
Carl Andre (1935) American artist
Source: Artists talks 1969 – 1977, p. 15
“It's an old saying that one still has to know something, despite everything.”
Halldór Laxness book Kristnihald undir Jökli (bók)
Kristnihald undir Jökli (Under the Glacier/Christianity at Glacier) (1968)
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: In arte, per creare qualcosa di unico, bisogna provare la gioia di un bambino, l'euforia di un adolescente, l'insicurezza di un adulto e l'esperienza di un anziano.
Source: prevale.net
Alfred P. Sloan (1875–1966) American businessman
Alfred P. Sloan. quoted in: John Bourne (2000), Learning Effectiveness and Faculty Satisfaction. p. 11