"I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence."

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Source : Interview with Zoe Stillpass, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 7, 2014.

Pierre Soulages

#Art Quotes #Opposites Quotes #Perspective Quotes

“I have this idea that you can use glamour and still have it represent something that matters.”

Source : "Guru of celebrity kitsch turns to politics" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2010.
“In 2014, impunity in journalism murder cases reached a staggering 96 percent and the remaining 4 percent obtained only partial justice, we have become targets. Insurgent groups no longer use reporters to transmit news, but instead kidnap them to make news. They treat us as enemy combatants and spies. This is our everyday reality.”
“Maybe you've got the patience to work out some complicated, long-term, ironic way to get back at the people who've wronged you, but that's you.”

Source : Greg Cox, Electric Entertainment (2013). “The Bestseller Job”, p.71, Penguin
“A human group transforms itself into a crowd when it suddenly responds to a suggestion rather than to reasoning, to an image rather than to an idea, to an affirmation rather than to proof, to the repetition of a phrase rather than to arguments, to prestige rather than to competence.”

Source : Jean François Revel (1991). “The Flight from Truth: The Reign of Deceit in the Age of Information”, Random House (NY)
“I was 29 and I really fell in love, I think, for the first time. I was vulnerable in a way I didn't think I could be.”
“Blessings we enjoy daily, and for the most of them, because they be so common, men forget to pay their praises. [and miss much of their benefits from grateful appreciation]”
“The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.”
“Genuine peace is based on inner peace, because you cannot build peace on the basis of anger”

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