"It has become apparent that art can have a startling impact without really being or saying anything startling â€” or new. The character itself of being startling, spectacular, or upsetting has become conventionalized, part of safe good taste."

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Source : Clement Greenberg (1969). “Avant-garde Attitudes: New Art in the Sixties”

Clement Greenberg

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“The more knowledge (of deen) you have the more humble you should be. Instead you are becoming judgemental.”
“Quiet, deep breath after any prayer is another form of Amen.”
“History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments.”

Source : Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.65, A&C Black
“Fashion lives in the world of ideals; it is not necessarily grounded in the real world. The question becomes whose ideal it is. My ideal happens to be diversity. I love difference. I love change. I love experimentation and eccentricities. I like not knowing something and then discovering. Fashion can only reflect this diversity if we designers have an open and curious mind.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“We (Christians) are always in the presence of God. There is never a non-sacred moment! His presence never diminishes. Our awareness of His presence may falter, but the reality of His presence never changes.”
“I've been trying to fit everything in, trying to get to the end before it's too late, but I see now how badly I've deceived myself. Words do not allow such things. The closer you come to the end, the more there is to say. The end is only imaginary, a destination you invent to keep yourself going, but a point comes when you realize you will never get there. You might have to stop, but that is only because you have run out of time. You stop, but that does not mean you have come to an end.”
“Don't ever humiliate a man. If you're gonna have to dress him out, you take him aside and do it that way. That's the one thing I don't like about Hollywood: They go in for public humiliation. You shouldn't do that to a man.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Weâ€™re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.”

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