Just Me

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

Out of the night that covers me,      Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be      For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance      I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance      My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears      Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years      Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate,      How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate,      I am the captain of my soul.

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.

Teaching creativity is knowledge-based, being creative is studio-based. We can know of creativity but being creative takes effort. Creativity can be expressed and discussed while being creative must be done.

The mysterious is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and science.

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.

Students should be reminded from time to time that asking questions in class is an important part of learning, just as good test questions on an exam are.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do, and I understand.

Young children, as artists, have not yet been taught how not to see.

Hear this, young men and women everywhere, and proclaim it far and wide. The earth is yours and the fullness thereof. Be kind, but be fierce. You are needed now more than ever before. Take up the mantle of change. For this is your time.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

If you ignite passion within you... the external world has a miraculous and magnificent way of rearranging itself to suit the new person you are becoming."