"The role of the artist, like that of the scholar, consists of seizing current truths often repeated to him, but which will take on new meaning for him and which he will make his own when he has grasped their deepest significance."

-- Henri Matisse

#Artist Quotes #Roles Quotes #Currents Quotes

“I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete.”

Source : Brian Aldiss (2011). “Greybeard”, p.73, Hachette UK
“Forget the brother and resume the man.”
“We both liked children; we just didn't want any ourselves. There were children everywhere, and we saw no reason to start our own brand. Young couples plunge into parenthood and about half the time they end up with some ghastly problem on their hands. We thought we'd leave that to others.”

Source : Thomas McGuane (2015). “Crow Fair: Stories”, p.82, Vintage
“What does interest me is how difficult my culture seems to find it to look the dark side of life directly in the eye. It seems to me that if we look back at mediaeval culture, for example, we see a society which faces the reality of death and pain and limitation, because it has to. Our society, which is progressive and technological and seems to have a slightly fanatical utopian edge to it, gets very uncomfortable when anybody highlights the dark side of humanity, or the world we have built, or what we are doing to the rest of life on Earth.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I didn't want to engage in a campaign where I was defending myself on those issues at every turn, so I just decided that I'd switch and run as a Republican”
“Love and a cold cannot be hid. It is, I believe, a Spanish proverb.”
“However, the Administration's plan to privatize Social Security will undermine retirement security for all Americans by cutting guaranteed benefits by more than 40 percent, and risky private accounts won't make up for the loss of benefits for millions of Americans.”
“Rapturous and full bodied performance.”

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