"One thing that success has taught me is censorship"

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Source : "Show and tell". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2001.

Tracey Emin

#Taught Quotes #Censorship Quotes

“There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.”
“Israel has come out of the boils of the hell, a satanic state.”
“Frederic Leighton to James McNeill Whistler: 'My dear Whistler, you leave your pictures in such a sketchy, unfinished state. Why don't you ever finish them?' James McNeill Whistler to Frederic Leighton: 'My dear Leighton, why do you ever begin yours?”
“The news of the days it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, and fears, and the task of selecting and ordering that news is one of the truly sacred and priestly offices in a democracy. For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.”
“There are times when you just have to show people that you're all in.”
“Yes?" she asked, eyeing me guardedly. I struck out a hand and said "Shake." Arra stared at the hand, then into my unfocused eyes. "One good fight doesn't make you a warrior," she said. "Shake!" I repeated angrily. "And if I don't?" she asked. "I'll get back up on the bars and fight you till you do," I growled. Arra studied me at length, then nodded and took my hand. "Power to you, Darren Shan," she said gruffly. "Power," I repeated weakly, then fainted into her arms and knew no more till I came to in my hammock the next night.”
“It was only since the turn of the century that one returned to the immense role that abstraction plays in the human mind by its power of concentration upon absolute essentials.”

Source : "The Eternal Present: The beginnings of art".
“All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.”

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