"As I got older I became a kind of sub cultural junkie, foraging around in music, street fashion and eventually art, politics and the freakier reaches of the Internet, hunting the next discovery, the next seam of underground gold."

-- Hari Kunzru

#Fashion Quotes #Art Quotes #Hunting Quotes

“I think sometimes negative campaigning, like so much, is in the eye of the beholder, and I don't think we'll ever get rid of it.”
“If we knew what people had been through, their sorrow and suffering, we would not be so quick to judge.”
“All I can say is Bishop Jakes would not currently accept the designation of Prosperity Preacher or Word of Faith Preacher as an accurate description of what he believes currently. Now his ministry will have to bear that out. I'm not here to defend him or stick up for his various errors. And I don't want to minimize error that is significant. All I'm saying is that he, as of two weeks ago, would not accept those terms, in private conversation, as accurate descriptors of what he believes.”
“I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit.”
“The critic interested in a novel manifestation holds his criteria and taste in reserve. Since they were formed upon yesterday's art, he does not assume that they are ready-made for today.”

Source : Leo Steinberg (1975). “Other criteria: confrontations with twentieth-century art”, Oxford University Press, USA
“In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.”
“Being human, at times, is very painful, and that leads us to reawakening.”
“Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.”

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