"Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?"

-- Aphra Behn

#Wit Quotes #Submit Quotes

“A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.”
“Artists have been used over and over again since the early 1980s as the legitimizers of a neighborhood in New York. And entrepreneurial artists, meaning people who themselves start out as painters, musicians, dancers, and who open a cafÃ©, a bar, a restaurant, or even a co-op art gallery - they unintentionally develop the kinds of attractions that bring the middle class with some kind of cultural ambition.”
“I can't afford to be a member of a golf course.”
“I fell in love with melancholy”
“My students used to say, one such as Mary O'Neal, that I identified the students by their boyfriend/girlfriend relationship. That was the way I knew them and keep up with them. Mary was the girlfriend of Stokely Carmichael. She later became a fine painter of distinction and taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, and later became chairman of the Department of Art at Berkeley.”

Source : Source: www.aaa.si.edu
“Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won't do it well anyway.”

Source : Interview with Mihai Budiu, www.cs.cmu.edu. July 2000.
“Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the ***** and angels of our striving selves.”
“The church has contributed nothing to civilization. It has progressed somewhat, and it has become a little more decent, in reflection of the movements of civilization that have taken place outside of the church and usually in the face of the strong opposition of the church. But the church has always resisted the process of civilization. It has struggled to the last ditch, by fair means and foul, to preserve as long as it could the vestiges of ancient and medieval theology, with all the puerile moralities and harsh customs and medieval styles of belief.”

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