Ted Harrison famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

One curator said he didn't want my work in his gallery because it was so simple even children understood it. I thought, what a wonderful tribute!
-- Ted Harrison

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I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.
Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors, that any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like compound interest. Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.
I want the love that cannot help but love; Loving, like God, for very sake of love.
I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.
Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.

Ted Harrison famous quotes

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