We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.
Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.
Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end.
PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.
In fine arts, when you make a painting, it's just a painting. But if you make a painting in the entertainment industry, it can be an album cover or a t-shirt or a logo.
Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.
At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.
The need is not for the creation of new analytical techniques specially designed for the negotiation process, but rather for the creative use of analytical thinking that exploits existing techniques.
I have no creative use for guilt, yours or my own. Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action, of buying time out of the pressing need to make clear choices, out of the approaching storm that can feed the earth as well as bend the trees.
I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
