"If you're smart enough you realise that your possessions possess you in their turn. Collecting has a neurotic aspect. I find it boring when collectors found their own private museums or try to establish a memorial to themselves in the form of their collections, it's part of the old aristocratic mentality. I think a collection ought to be dismantled after the collector's death."

-- Thomas Koerfer

#Smart Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Museums Quotes

“I'm pushing myself in other, slower directions. Some of the stuff that I'm writing is not necessarily so speedy; it's a different kind of intense that I'm going for now, a more focused intensity. It's good to look at what you've done and think, "What have I not done?" That's why so many artists that have longer careers do change, and sometimes very abruptly, because if you're not interested, how the hell is anybody else supposed to be? If you're bored, everyone else is going to be too.”
“My eyes are too big, my nose is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big and my face is too small... my body is thin as a clarinet and my ankles are so skinny that I wear two pairs of bobby socks because I don't want people to see how thin they are.”
“I'm not irreplaceable ... I'm nothing but grass growing on the ground; when the grass dies, another one replaces it ...”
“You're trying to figure out a way to go back in time and spend more time with your father. Who wouldn't want to do that?”
“Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.”
“Alice:How long is forever? White Rabbit:Sometimes, just one second.”
“Peace isn't the mere absence of violence; peace must come from inner peace. And inner peace comes from taking othersâ€™ interests into account.”
“When the people decide they want peace more than security, they will find both.”

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