"Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar to us from primitive life must also be used in works of art."

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Source : Anton Webern (1975). “The path to the new music”, European Amer Music Dist Corp

Anton Webern

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“There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.”
“These days vampires gravitated toward particle accelerators, projects to decode the genome, and molecular biology. Once they had flocked to alchemy, anatomy, and electricity. If it went bang, involved blood, or promised to unlock the secrets of the universe, there was sure to be a vampire around.”

Source : Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.26, Penguin
“Obviously when you're a child actor, you have zero inhibitions. You don't care. You don't get introverted thinking people are looking at you funny.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“If you really want to change a culture... empower women.”
“Ethical veganism represents a commitment to nonviolence.”
“If you come out with racist comments, then I believe you shouldn't be allowed to come to a football match. Don't be so narrow minded, you're bigger than that.”
“In a painting, what counts is the unexpected.”

Source : "Le Monologue du Peintre". Book by George Charbonnier, 1959.
“They that know God will be humble. They that know themselves cannot be proud.”

Source : John Flavel (1996). “The Method of Grace: How the Holy Spirit Works”, p.399, Hartland Publications

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