"An invention or new combination can be successful only if all if the elements necessary for the recombination are present in the culture."

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Source : Peter Farb (1968). “Man's rise to civilization as shown by the Indians of North America from primeval times to the coming of the industrial state”, Secker & Warburg

Peter Farb

#Successful Quotes #Elements Quotes #Culture Quotes

“The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.”
“Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.”
“I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.”
“Art must not be concentrated in dead shrines called museums. lt must be spread everywhere â€“ on the streets, in the trams, factories, workshops, and in the workers' homes.”

Source : "Shrine or Factory?" by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1918.
“The earth is definitely doomed.”
“But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.”
“If you're going to win the race you have to be a participant”
“I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender fluid without being gender dysphoric. This phenomenon may be culturally significant, but it has only a little bit in common with the people who feel they can have no authentic self in their birth gender.”

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