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Inflammatory Essays
Jenny Holzer.
10 Rules for Students and Teachers

Rule 1:
Find a place your trust, and then, try trusting it for awhile.

Rule 2:
(General Duties as a Student)
Pull everything out of your teacher.
Pull everything out of your fellow students.

Rule 3:
(General Duties as a Teacher)
Pull everything out of your students.

Rule 4:
Consider everything an experiment.

Rule 5:
Be Self Disciplined. This means finding someone wise or smart and choosing to follow them. To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way.

Rule 6:
Follow the leader. Nothing is a mistake. There is no win and no fail. There is only make.

Rule 7:
The only rule is work. If you work it will lead to something. It is the people who do all the work all the time who eventually catch onto things. You can fool the fans–but not the players.

Rule 8:
Do not try to create and analyze at the same time.

Rule 9:
Be happy whenever you can manage in. Enjoy yourself. It is lighter than you think.

Rule 10:
We are breaking all the rules, even our own rules and how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for “x” qualities.

Helpful Hints:
Always Be Around.
Come or go to everything.
Always go to classes.
Read everything you can get your hands on.
Look at movies carefully and often.
SAVE EVERYTHING. It may come in handy later.

John Cage.

THE COURAGE IT LOOK TO GET OUT OF BED
EACH
MORNING
TO FACE THE SAME THINGS
OVER AND OVER
WAS
ENORMOUS.

Charles Bukowski.

Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.

Alvar Aalto.

Everything we design has to be a learning system; it can’t just be an artifact.

Tim Brown