"It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned."

-- Camille Paglia

#Art Quotes #Hero Quotes #Soup Quotes

“I never did anything else. In college I switched majors every two weeks, and acting was the only thing that held my interest.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I don't do chat-up lines. Girls often tell me I'm cheeky. Being cheeky seems to work OK for me.”

Source : "Jermain Defoe: 'I give my looks 11 out of 10. I don't need improving'". Interview with Mirror.co.uk, www.mirror.co.uk. June 6, 2010.
“After all, what's good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone.”
“It's no surprise to me or the other Isley brothers that I can sing, because I used to sing all the time in practice. The surprise is that somebody else likes it.”
“I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.”
“If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being.”
“Thermodynamics, correctly interpreted, does not just allow Darwinian evolution; it favors it.”
“The foundation of all civilization is loitering.”

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