+ I learned that life will go through changes – up and down and up again. It’s what life does. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Ben Okri, 0 - Ben Okri Poet · Nigeria
+ This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Ben Okri, Grows, 0 - Ben Okri Poet · Nigeria
+ To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Ben Okri, Belief, 0 - Ben Okri Poet · Nigeria
+ We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right. Feraz Zeid, September 29, 2023December 26, 2023, Ben Okri, Spirit, 0 - Ben Okri Poet · Nigeria
+ Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard. Feraz Zeid, September 25, 2023December 26, 2023, Ben Okri, Gold, Neglect, Yards, 0 - Ben Okri Poet · Nigeria
+ Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Ben Okri, Artist, Broken, Enemy, 0 - Ben Okri Poet · Nigeria
+ When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity’s chief instrument. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Ben Okri, Chaos, Deities, Eras, 0 - Ben Okri Poet · Nigeria
+ Don’t read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Ben Okri, Checks, Reading, 0 - Ben Okri Poet · Nigeria
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
The real function of art is to change mental patterns … making new thought possible. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
