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“We care too much about what happens to be there as a result of history. I worry even more that we care too much for the past and not enough for the present and the near present.”
Source : "Tate chief attacks 'save for the nation' art policy" by Fiachra Gibbons, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2003.
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“It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.”
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“Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence.”
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“There's one secret to hitting hard, and that is to completely dedicate your body. That's the difference between a man going forward and a man going backward, no matter how big he is.”
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“To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. This and nothing else.”
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“In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live.”
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“Instability mostly comes from the interface between the fact that the banks (or shadow banks) can create credit, money, and purchasing power in infinite quantities if we don't constrain them, and the fact that credit is primarily created to fund the purchase of urban real estate and land, which is somewhat fixed in supply.”
Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
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“...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.”