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“A war against terrorism is an impracticable conception if it means fighting terrorism with terrorism.”
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“Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep.”
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“When one lives with problems of importance, the prostitute is ideal. You pay, and whether or not you fail is of no importance. She doesn't care.”
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“I started making music with my band in the 80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.”
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“Songs from the wood make you feel much better.”
Source : Song: Songs from the Wood, 1977
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“The Internet is a medium only at the bit level. At the human level, it is a conversation that, because of the persistence and linkedness of pages, has elements of a world. It could only be a medium if we absolutely didn't care about it.”
Source : "The Internet is not a medium". Hyperorg.com, March 27, 2004.
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“We are part of the world creation, and we ourselves create nothing. Our knowledge allows us to make use of all the forces already in existence, our art to interpret emotions already felt. One big war, an epidemic, and we collapse into ignorance and darkness, fit sons of chimpanzees.”
Source : Arshile Gorky, Matthew Spender (2009). “Arshile Gorky: goats on the roof : a life in letters and documents”
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“Quit jumping over our feelings!”