Wifredo Lam famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

With regard to life, modern painting is a revolutionary activityâ€¦We need it in order to transform the world into a more humane place where mankind can live in libertyâ€¦We must accept these things with passion. It means that we must live imaginatively.
-- Wifredo Lam

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Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.
The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.
I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passionâ€“â€“ cools your fears with peace.
From moment then to moment their desire Gained strength, and wisdom fled before love's fire; Passion engulfed them, and these lovers lay Entwined together till the break of day.
Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest, which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
When it comes to fundraising for a social enterprise, if you are pursuing your true passion, you'll learn to become great at your craft because you'll care so much about perfecting the skills necessary to make that dream a reality.
The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.
The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears.
In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.

Wifredo Lam famous quotes

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