"The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public."

-- Paul Gauguin

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“Every moment is a new beginning.”
“Bill Clinton is like a lot of white politicians. They eat soul food, they party with black women, they play the saxophone, but when it comes to domestic and foreign policy, they make the same decisions that are destructive to African people in this country and throughout the world.”

Source : "Today", June 16, 1992.
“Without adversity, we can never unleash our greatness.”
“The doctrine of hell does not stand alone as a kind of ancient Christian horror story. Rather, hell is inseparable from three other interrelated biblical truths: human sin, God's holiness, and the cross of Christ.”
“I am trying like Klee, to create something that will have a life of its own, that can put me in real danger, a danger which I willingly take on myself.”
“Sound is not simply what we hear or play, but equally a feeling in the body”
“The Encyclopedia - the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment.”

Source : Peter Prange (2011). “The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel”, p.291, Simon and Schuster
“We energetically attract what we haven't worked out in ourselves. When vampires evoke intensely judgmental reactions from us, it could be they are mirroring aspects of our personalities we don't like or completely understand.”

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