"My first reaction to finding Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in a book was, Wow, what a great photograph! I could not believe that someone had gone to so much trouble just to end up with a picture."

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Vik Muniz

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“We've become increasingly addicted to consumption of goods that we don't produce ourselves, and a lot of the manufacturing has gone overseas.”
“Oddly enough, I suppose, I don't give much thought to my style, and I don't attempt to be consistent - except within a story. You ask if I struggled to find my style. It seems to me that style - in other words, a way of thinking and doing things - is innate. You can try to will it to be different, but it's like a signature - you can't change its fundamental nature.”

Source : "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.
“Anarchism is the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is, the abolition of private property and government; Anarchism is the destruction of misery, of superstitions, of hatred. Therefore, every blow given to the institutions of private property and to the government, every exaltation of the conscience of man, every disruption of the present conditions, every lie unmasked, every part of human activity taken away from the control of the authorities, every augmentation of the spirit of solidarity and initiative, is a step towards Anarchism.”

Source : Errico Malatesta (2014). “The Method of Freedom: An Errico Malatesta Reader”, p.272, AK Press
“I never learn my lesson.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“Be present, from moment to moment, right in the middle of the real stream of time. That gives you spiritual security. That is why in Buddhism we don't try to escape from impermanence; we face time itself in our daily living.”
“There are in fact four very significant stumbling blocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely, the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance while making a display of our apparent knowledge.”

Source : "Teaching the pursuit of science". Book by John H. Woodburn and Ellsworth Scott Obourn, p. 70, 1965.
“Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.”
“I turned to the Times crossword puzzle and asked Kate, â€œWhatâ€™s the definition of a moderate Arab?â€ â€œI donâ€™t know.â€ â€œA guy who ran out of ammunition.”

Source : Nelson DeMille (2008). “Wild Fire: Number 4 in series”, p.118, Hachette UK

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