"More than a rejection or dissolution of the past, avant-garde originality is conceived as a literal origin, a beginning from ground zero, a birth."

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Source : Rosalind E. Krauss (1986). “The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths”, p.157, MIT Press

Rosalind E. Krauss

#Zero Quotes #Past Quotes #Rejection Quotes

“Maturity and experience shouldn't stop one from craving silly things like sliding down bannisters.”

Source : Lewis Buzbee (2010). “The Haunting of Charles Dickens”, p.302, Macmillan
“The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing.”
“To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person.”
“The international community can't trust such a government. If the government of Iran wants the international community to believe in what it says, it should try to bring true, pure democracy into the country. The political solution to the energy issue or the nuclear case is democracy in Iran.”
“Recovery culture teaches you that you have to repent. I don't think that's necessary.”
“Student debt in the US has exploded in the past decade. One of the reason is that the private costs of attending college have risen sharply, with public higher education funding having been cut sharply. Average public funding per student was 15 percent lower in 2015 than in 2008, and 20 percent lower than in 1990. The burden of the public funding cuts has been worsened by the stagnation of average family incomes. By 2014, this figure had nearly doubled, to 35 percent of median household income.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements.”
“I see the God complex around me all the time in my fellow economists. I see it in our business leaders. I see it in the politicians we vote for - people who, in the face of an incredibly complicated world, are nevertheless absolutely convinced that they understand the way that the world works.”

Source : "Trial, error and the God complex". TED conference, www.ted.com. July 2011.

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