"When people ask me now about why I make art, I think that's what I'm seeking - a moment of transcendence with a piece. Because otherwise you're just in the hustle, you're trying to pay your bills, to do this and that, and then there's that unique moment, when you're not thinking about the market, or if it's going to sell, and all of that bullshit."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Fernando Mastrangelo

#Art Quotes #Unique Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again.”
“[I]n order to raise a soul to the highest perfection, He allows it to pass through dryness, brambles, and combats, causing it thereby to honor the times of weariness in the life of His Son, Our Lord, who suffered various kinds of anguish and abandonment.”
“The Germans are often too bureaucratic, too fixated on rules and not risk-oriented enough. And some of their officials have the feeling that they need to make everything in the cityscape look nice and pretty as quickly as possible. That was particularly apparent in the former East Germany after reunification. Then cities sometimes get a bit too neat and tidy.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“'Human history, ' H.G. Wells once wrote, 'becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.' You and I cannot be indifferent to the outcome of that race. We care deeply about the winner. Because we do care so deeply about the winner, that is why we are all in the East Room of the White House today.”
“Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.”
“A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on.”
“The rest of Europe tends to be very comfortable with sexuality. The British and the Americans are kind of hung up about it.”
“One of the frustrations of having a mind trained to think and consider possibilities was that it couldn't simply be stopped once engaged.”

Source : Mel Odom (2005). “Lord of the Libraries”, p.301, Macmillan

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