"Beauty is a dynamic event that occurs between you and something else."

Beauty is a dynamic event that occurs between you and something else. Beauty can spontaneously occur at any moment given the proper circumstances, context, or point of view. Beauty is thus an altered state of consciousness, an extraordinary moment of poetry and grace.

from Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers

"Love your experiments as you would an ugly child."

4. Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child). Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.

Bruce Mau Design's "An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth"

"To be respectable, it is necessary to spend your leisure time..."

To be respectable, it is necessary to spend your leisure time sampling the great masterworks of culture. To fight off the grubby materialism of American culture, it is necessary to be conversant in philosophy, theology and the great political events of the wider world.

Cultural changes allow magazine to experiment

"Self-correction is a sign of intelligent behavior."

Self-correction is a sign of intelligent behavior.

From yours truly.

Examples: Admitting what you're trying is not working, and then changing direction. Requirements: Humility, honesty. Thoughts?

"Knowledge makes everything simpler."

Knowledge makes everything simpler.

From John Maeda's The Laws of Simplicity