"There is this looking at the world as shapes and patterns and colors that have meaning, and you can't deny the superficial because the superficial is what meets the eye. The content can never be disconnected from the surface, and this active interest in surface can never be disregarded from the good art that we admire."

-- Wolfgang Tillmans

#Art Quotes #Eye Quotes #World Quotes

“In a dynamical system, or a massively complex dynamical system such as we live in, when there is a moment of bifurcation, which is the technical mass jargon for â€œthe snapâ€, that is the only time you get to do anything about the evolution of the system. So according to this self-inflating view, we live at an especially important special moment in history where when we think something or do something it has actually an enormous effect on the future. What we do has some influence on the creation of the future more than at other times in history.”
“So many things can drive you mad as a child, not only music.”
“I get tweets every single day going, like, 'I'm so glad you weren't on 'The X Factor.''”
“I envy your ignorance, I hear that it's bliss.”

Source : Song: Adam And Eve
“The things you think about when you're a hair's breath away from getting yourself killed.”

Source : Ilsa J. Bick (2011). “Draw the Dark”, p.317, Carolrhoda Lab
“It's a common theme around the city of New Orleans; we're resilient people because we have to be. We love this place with all of our heart and all of our soul and I just wanted to try to do something that I could to help make it better.”

Source : "New Orleans Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 26, 2010.
“I can't expect loyalty from the army if I do not give it.”
“No matter how grave the secret, how imperative absolute silence, someone would always feel the urge to confess, and an unleashed secret is a terrible force.”

Source : "Téa Obreht: 'I don't feel I've earned the Orange prize'" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2011.

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