An artist… must actively
An artist… must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living. Eric Maisel
Rigor
One must be truthful
One must be truthful with oneself about one’s own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage. Emile Chartier
An extreme rigor is
An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it. Edmund Burke
It is the nature
It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions; on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor. Edmund Burke
Rigor pushed too far
Rigor pushed too far is sure to miss its aim, however good, as the bow snaps that is bent too stiffly. Friedrich Schiller
In those days it
In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the imagination-and to flee, not like Plato into the land of eternal ideas, into the workshop off the world-creator, feasting one’s eyes on the unblemished unbreakable archetypes, but into the rigor … Read more
Alchemy and Kabbalah are
Alchemy and Kabbalah are later developments in my thinking. I think the primary interest has been the relationship of magic and mystery to logic and understanding. Those are the primary driving forces of my life. I have this ability, for some reason, to be able to hold both the Magical MysteryTour we’re on in conjunction … Read more
Once I really started
Once I really started to understand Frank Stella’s work and follow it, there’s a certain type of invention and playfulness and extreme rigor with which he kept going forward. Frank Stella
I think the rigors
I think the rigors of a TV schedule are brutal and ‘Six Feet Under’ wasn’t a network schedule. We did 13 shows, we didn’t do 22. I don’t know how people do that. I really don’t. I mean the shows are shorter, but wow, it’s quite a discipline. Frances Conroy
Presently it appears that
Presently it appears that people are mainly concerned with being well rested. Those capable of uninterrupted sleep are much admired. Unconsciousness is in great demand. This is the day of the milligram. The rigors of learning how to do long division have been a traditional part of childhood, just like learning to smoke. In fact, … Read more