"If I go into a museum, it doesn't matter how often a work of art has been written about or thought about, I am going to discover something that is my own, which will be new. You always must be discovering, rediscovering. That's what the world of art means. It means constant mystery in the discovery, the rediscovery."

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Ashley Bryan

#Art Quotes #Mean Quotes #World Quotes

“Discontent is the first necessity of progress.”

Source : "The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison". Book by Thomas A. Edison, 1948.
“Me and my wife were interested in avoiding style, in eliminating voice, in getting away from the poetry logics, textures, and propulsions that we normally employ in our writing. But we arrived at even this organically and separately.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions.”
“Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.”
“"Democracy" means nothing else other than, "rule of the people", in Greek. There is nothing democratic about the political concepts of the United States and Europe.”
“After a lifetime of affectionate regard for dogs and many years of close observation and reflection, I have reached the conclusion that dogs feel more than I do (I am not prepared to speak for other people). They feel more, and they feel more purely and more intensely.”

Source : Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (1998). “Dogs Never Lie about Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs”, Broadway Books
“Revolutions never go backward.”

Source : At Rochester on the Irrepressible Conflict, October 1858
“Naturally looking at something will become so important in your aesthetic. For that, you have to be disciplined, too, in the way that there is a moment to catch and there is a moment to express. The moment to express has to be so pragmatic, because you have to build the clothes; you have to be very, very specific about how you want to describe to other people, for the color of the fabric, the way of sewing things, putting things together.”

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