"What art should do, I think, is advance the generation into the next era. It should be one step ahead of the ordinary, ahead of what is already known. Art is what pulls on the next age. Iâ€™m not saying that my art is that, but that it would be good if it could be."

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Source : Andy Couturier (2010). “A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance”, p.278, Stone Bridge Press

Andy Couturier

#Art Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Age Quotes

“I was to be a photographer and that was that. It did everything for me. I love people. I needed the camera more than ever I would have believed.”
“We can only choose whether we will feel and not what we will feel.”

Source : Sam Keen (1980). “What to do when you're bored and blue”
“There is the refusal of style and the refusal of sentimentalism, there is this desire for clarity.”
“He thought of men like Hitler, Stalin, and Napoleon. All it took was a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in power and then fall under their spell.”
“If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.”
“We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.”
“What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.”
“History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.”

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