"Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s."

-- Camille Paglia

#Dance Quotes #Art Quotes #Years Quotes

“I strode among giants, friends tell me now, though at the time I felt more like a misfit associating with oddballs.”
“I think of masculine and feminine energy like two sides to a battery. Theres a plus side and a minus side, and in order to make something turn on, you need to have opposites touching. Its the same in relationships.”
“The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.”
“It's not about market share. If you have a successful company, you will get your market share. But to get a successful company, what do you have to have? The same metrics of success that your customer does.”
“By right, as the word is employed in this subject, has always been understood discretion, that is, a full and complete power of either doing a thing or omitting it, without the person's becoming liable to animadversion or censure from another, that is, in other words, without his incurring any degree of turpitude or guilt. Now in this sense I affirm that man has no rights, no discretionary power whatever.”
“To play Swedish folk music is a lifetime achievement, but I'm well on my way.”

Source : "Dungen". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. March 27, 2005.
“I try to imagine how we would live if we didn't know we were going to die. Would we live our lives differently? Less careful, maybe? Less scared? These are beautiful things to think about and build a song around.”
“What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.”

Source : Patrick Kavanagh (1973). “Collected Pruse”

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