"There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers. Judging by the paintings I saw, the Soviets were right the first time."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

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“The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and their content lies in themselves.”

Source : Naum Gabo (2000). “Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews”
“I went to the flea market in the morning and charged tourists money to take pictures of me. I looked pretty wild, with hair down to my waist, Indian robes, a floor-length fur coat. There must be lots of photos of me out there.”
“A pleasant traveling companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. Each day is the scholar of yesterday.”
“Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.”
“The salient mystery of Dark Ages sets the stage for mass amnesia. People living in vigorous cultures typically treasure those cultures and resist any threat to them. How and why can a people so totally discard a formerly vital culture that it becomes vitally lost.”
“If we are meant to "love thy neighbor as theyself," then surely we should love the world's children as our own.”
“The Scandinavians are dear people but they've never been what you might call bywords for wit and sparkle, have they?”
“Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.”

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