"The underlying purpose of all art is to create patterns of imagery which somehow convey a sense of life set in a framework of order ... all great art ... harmonises consciousness with the ego-transcending Self."

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Source : Christopher Booker (2004). “The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories”, p.552, A&C Black

Christopher Booker

#Art Quotes #Self Quotes #Order Quotes

“Musical theatre is my first love.”
“We can pursue the Cartesian project without restricting ourselves to theology and a priori faculties. A better, broader perspective is properly sought if we pursue the project with reliance on science broadly and on our full span of epistemic competences, including the empirical as well as the a priori.”
“The â€˜Great Societyâ€™ has not worked and itâ€™s put us into the modern welfare state. If you look at China, they donâ€™t have food stamps. If you look at China, theyâ€™re in a very different situation. They save for their own retirement securityâ€¦they donâ€™t have the modern welfare state and Chinaâ€™s growing. And so what I would do is look at the programs that LBJ gave us with the Great Society and theyâ€™d be gone.”
“I think there's an interest right now in the performance aspect of artworks, instead of just hanging things on walls. We're in a moment when a lot of younger artists are looking at work from the '60s and '70s - they are looking at the pieces by Marina Abramovic or Vito Acconci. These pieces have a time element. They were performed live. To perform them again now isn't simply an homage, because it's a different audience, a different moment.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Somewhere in the fear and chaos, there is a clarity that few will ever experience.”
“I feel like any single woman of color who's been onstage has a Shakespeare monologue in her back pocket, and a monologue from 'For Colored Girls.' It's just part of what you should have, as a woman of color.”
“Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry -- and the world laughs harder.”
“There certainly are some good aspects to Common Core.”

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