"Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death."

-- Milan Kundera

#Art Quotes #Mean Quotes #Passion Quotes

“I was having a hard time at school, in terms of being crap at everything, with no discernible talent,”
“Faith is not a blind, irrational conviction. In order to believe, we must know what we believe, and the grounds on which our faith rests.”

Source : Charles Hodge (2014). “Systematic Theology”, p.1289, Ravenio Books
“The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new”

Source : Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton
“I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.”
“The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.”
“There is presumably a calendar date a moment when the onus of proof passed from the atheist to the believer, when, quite suddenly, secretly, the noes had it.”
“Design is interesting because it's utopian. Art is often a jaundiced commentary on contemporary life. Design is always about the future; it's always about something great and new that's come out that will make the future brighter. It has this weird 18th - century positivism about it.”
“It is funny what a year can do.”

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