ArkAngel’s most recent Quotables

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach.

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

An essential first step in being creative yourself is to question your own way of looking at things. If he's serious about promoting creativity in others, perhaps Gove could start there.

The real driver of creativity is an appetite for discovery and a passion for the work itself. When students are motivated to learn, they naturally acquire the skills they need to get the work done. Their mastery of them grows as their creative ambitions expand. You'll find evidence of this process in great teaching in every discipline from football to chemistry.

creativity, like learning in general, is a highly personal process. We all have different talents and aptitudes and different ways of getting to understand things. Raising achievement in schools means leaving room for these differences and not prescribing a standard steeplechase for everyone to complete at the same time and in the same way.

There are various myths about creativity. One is that only special people are creative; another is that creativity is just about the arts; a third is that it's all to do with uninhibited "self-expression". None of these is true. On the contrary, everyone has creative capacities; creativity is possible in whatever you do, and it can require great discipline and many different skills.

Creative work in any field often passes through typical phases. Sometimes what you end up with is not what you had in mind when you started. It's a dynamic process that often involves making new connections, crossing disciplines and using metaphors and analogies.

I define creativity as the process of having original ideas that have value.

Since Russia's basically built on twin towers of luxur€y and p:(verty, the concept of The VIP has become a national obsession. It's either that or the gutter.

One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.

I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence.

Winning is a habit

In our time rhythm is more and more accentuated, not only in art, but in mechanized reality and in the whole of life.

Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.

The world's perverse, but it could be worse.

Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter.
Explore the world.
Nearly everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best.
Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do.

If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

Bro, I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms. Something is wrong here. Dead giveaway.

You got some big testicles to pull this off, bro.