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“‘Men have forgotten this truth,’ said the fox. ‘But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'”<\/i> -Antoine de Saint-Exupery<\/p>\n
I was reading a little Antoine de Saint-Exupery earlier and remembered this paper cutting I did a very long time ago –sometime in 2008, I think. If you can’t tell, it’s supposed to be a fox jumping between two hands. The background was part cut paper, part coffee stains, part photoshop coloring. I wish I could achieve that look using only paper — maybe one of these days I’ll do some experimenting and figure it out. Anyway, “The Little Prince” is one of my all time favorite books. Even though I had my first copy when I was a kid, I didn’t ‘get it’ until I reread it a few years ago. Here’s a few more quotes from Saint-Exupery:<\/p>\n
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”<\/p>\n
\u201cTrue love begins when nothing is looked for in return.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it’s because you’re truly a wise man.\u201d<\/p>\n
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBehind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than itself. \u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
And here’s one more quote, one of my very first paper cuttings that I made when I was still cutting on a piece of wood.. These old ones are some of the most meaningful to me. I still have them.<\/p>\n
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