"What's important about the artists we learn about in art history and see in all the art books is that they have somehow pushed the boundaries of what people think art is or should be, and that's how they've made their work relevant. That's what I'm trying to figure out for myself."

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Source : "In-depth Written Interview". TeachingBooks Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. September 7, 2010.

Kadir Nelson

#Art Quotes #Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?”
“For even if the whole world believed in resurrection, little would change until we began to practice it. We can believe in CPR, but people will remain dead until someone breathes new life into them. And we can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.”

Source : Shane Claiborne (2006). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical”, p.150, Harper Collins
“It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied.”
“For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class”

Source : Hans Koning (1992). “Columbus: His Enterprise: Exploding the Myth”, p.118, NYU Press
“When I consider all the circumstances detailed above respecting the Pans, I cannot help believing that, under the mythos, a doctrine or history of a sect is concealed. Cunti, the wife of Pandu (du or God, Pan), wife of the generative power, mother of the Pandavas or devas, daughter of Sura or Syra the Sun PandÃ¦a only daughter of Cristna or the Sun Pandion, who had by Medea a son called Medus, the king of the Medes, who had a cousin, the famous Perseus surely all this is very mythological an historical parable!”

Source : Godfrey Higgins (1836). “Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic Isis : Or, An Inquiry Into the Origin of Languages, Nations, and Religions”, p.439
“Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the knee whether to gods or to men.”
“One of the objectives of opening play is to try to surprise your opponent.”
“Gratitude is not a normal feature of political life.”

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