It's so important to just be kind to one another because we aren't walking in that other person's shoes.
For better or worse, our future is now closely tied to human creativity.
Unless a person knows how to give order to her thoughts, attention will be attracted to whatever is most problematic at the moment.
Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation, self-aggrandizement, and saving energy, and an expansive tendency made up of instincts for exploring, for enjoying novelty and risk-the curiosity that leads to creativity belongs to this set. But whereas the first tendency requires little encouragement or support from outside to motivate behaviour, the second can wilt if not cultivated.
Happiness does not simply happen to us. It's something that we make happen.
For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way to make them obey our own desires or our own direction. Their random combinations are driven by forces we don't know about.
Find a way to express what moves you.
Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory.
I swear it's so easy. You don't have to have a diet mentality at all if you eat healthily, plant-based food.
The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.
I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.