"I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful."

-- Norman Hartnell

#Beautiful Quotes #Simplicity Quotes #Despise Quotes

“Schiller is an important philosopher because he shows just how integral the idea of beauty is in normal life.”

Source : "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.
“The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of violent conflict have branded it as a dismal science and why this age of wars, civil wars, and destruction has no use for it.”
“I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.”
“I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction.”
“A most unfailing experience... of the excitement of sublunary (that is, human) natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets has instructed and compelled my unwilling belief.”
“Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies.”

Source : Paul Klee (1969). “Paul Klee: Watercolors, Drawings, Writings”
“Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.”
“It seems that it is only in the United States that an almost masochistic attack on the position of its own oil companies exists.”

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