"Culture has to be constantly on the vanguard, too. It should be educating people, as it does in Latin America: thousands of great theatres, art cinemas, millions of free books distributed by the governments, public poetry readings, free public lectures, and all sorts of bookstores are open until early mornings, exhibitions reacting to the needs and sorrows of society, concerts of engaged music."

-- Andre Vltchek

#Art Quotes #Morning Quotes #Latin Quotes

“My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar”
“I love rhinestones, faux jewelry.”
“Protectionism is a misnomer. The only people protected by tariffs, quotas and trade restrictions are those engaged in uneconomic and wasteful activity. Free trade is the only philosophy compatible with international peace and prosperity.”
“The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless.”
“If my desire is possible, it means the system is already letting something else through.”
“I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do.”
“Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.”

Source : Jean Kerr (1962). “The Snake Has all the Lines”
“The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing.”

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