"What can art really do in the face of atrocity?"

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Source : "REVIEW / Actors, soundtrack clutter bite-size bits of art appreciation" by Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. June 18, 2007.

Simon Schama

#Art Quotes #Faces Quotes #Atrocities Quotes

“When a psychiatrist writes a bestseller, he is then urged to write a book of advice. But I think our culture's awash in advice. The problem is we don't know whether it applies to us or whether we're an exception.”
“O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung.”
“If you had half an hour of exercise this morning, you're in the right frame of mind to sit still and focus on this paragraph, and your brain is far more equipped to remember it.”
“My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic.”
“To serve God, to love God, to enjoy God, is the sweetest freedom in the world.”
“Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick”

Source : Charles Petzold (2000). “Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software”, p.517, Microsoft Press
“The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.”
“Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.”

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