"A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions."

-- Christopher Lasch

#Children Quotes #Lying Quotes #Desire Quotes

“How easy it is to be unknown!”

Source : Sophia Lee (1804). “The Recess: Or, A Tale of Other Times”, p.99
“It never struck me as interesting that I didn't go to school - we had our own little world. I always thought of kids who were going to regular school as if they're the others, the separate ones.”
“I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.”
“Americans appreciate the way our friends around the world are sticking by us, and we all hope for their continued support in what's going to be some very trying times.”
“Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.”
“Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.”
“There are times when you cannot even control the sugar level in your body. Remember that when you put sugar in your metabolism, you are upsetting your metabolism in a very direct way. X amount of sugar is understandable, but the amount of sugar you put in, only God can save you. And whenever you put x amount of sugar, you must follow the law of depression. When you get that kind of depression, you lose a lot of friends. Therefore, it is very fair to channel your energy. One of the best ways to channel the energy is to do the pranayama.”
“Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or â€˜dematerializedâ€™”

Source : Lucy R. Lippard (1973). “Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 ...”, p.7, Univ of California Press

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