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“Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.”
Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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“As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.”
Source : Ballads for Broadbrows (1930) "Lines for a Worthy Person"
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“Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.”
Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Jun 30, 2010 
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“As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.”
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“The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.”
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“An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.”
Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.54, Univ of California Press
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“I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.”
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“The Obama administration has issued numerous orders essentially suspending deportations, prompting a major spike in illegal crossings.”
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“In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.”
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“In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.”
