"The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world."

-- Roger Scruton

#Art Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Vision Quotes

“If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it.. it's cheaper in the long run.”

Source : Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.14, Penguin
“Changing the legal standard creates a slippery slope...plural marriage. The court opened up a pandora's box by doing that.”
“More often than not ... 'Selma' focuses on the one thing we don't expect in a movie about Martin Luther King Jr. - his doubts - and Oyelowo comes through with a deeply felt and quite brilliant performance,”
“I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.”
“Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop.”
“My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the 'natural' order of things in the history of post-war-N.Y. painting.”

Source : "Deborah Kass On Appropriation, Barbra Streisand, And The Dissolving Middle Class (PHOTOS, INTERVIEW)". Interview with Hallie Sekoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2012.
“So violent. You want to mug and tase everybody these days." "I do," Zuzana agreed. "I swear I hate more poeple every day. Everyone annoys me. If I'm like this now, what am I going to be like when I'm old?" "You'll be the mean old biddy who fires a BB gun at kids from her balcony." "Nah. BBs just rile 'em up. More like a crossbow. Or a bazooka.”
“Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.”

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