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On Nonconformity: Artist Ben Shahn’s Spirited Defense of Nonconformists as Society’s Engine of Growth and Greatness
“Without the nonconformist, any society of whatever degree of perfection must fall into decay.”
Music and the Mystery of Aliveness
“We are a music-making species — always have been, always will be — and music’s capacity to explore, express and address what it is to be human remains one of our greatest communal gifts.”
Against Common Sense: Vladimir Nabokov on the Wellspring of Wonder and Why the Belief in Goodness Is a Moral Obligation
“This capacity to wonder at trifles — no matter the imminent peril — these asides of the spirit, these footnotes in the volume of life are the highest forms of consciousness, and it is in this childishly speculative state of mind, so different from commonsense and its logic, that we know the world to be good.”
Create Dangerously: Albert Camus on the Artist as a Voice of Resistance and an Instrument of Freedom
“To create today is to create dangerously… The question, for all those who cannot live without art and what it signifies, is merely to find out how, among the police forces of so many ideologies… the strange liberty of creation is possible.”
W.H. Auden on the Political Power of Art and the Crucial Difference Between Party Issues and Revolutionary Issues
“In our age, the mere making of a work of art is itself a political act.”
MLK’s Lost Lectures on Technology, Alienation, Activism, and the Three Ways of Resisting the System
“There has always been a force struggling to respect higher values. None of the current evils rose without resistance, nor have they persisted without opposition.”
Romanian Philosopher Emil Cioran on the Courage to Disillusion Yourself
“The man who unmasks his fictions renounces his own resources and, in a sense, himself. Consequently, he will accept other fictions which will deny him, since they will not have cropped up from his own depths.”
James Baldwin on Resisting the Mindless Majority, Not Running from Uncomfortable Realities, and What It Really Means to Grow Up
“We ought to try, by the example of our own lives, to prove that life is love and wonder and that that nation is doomed which penalizes those of its citizens who recognize and rejoice in this fact.”
Three Balls of Wool: An Illustrated Celebration of Nonconformity and the Courage to Remake Society’s Givens
A poignant and hope-giving allegory based on the true story of a refugee family.
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