"Art need no longer be an account of past sensations."

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Source : Internationale Situationist (Paris), No. 1, June 1958.

Angela Carter

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“Men respect women who have standards - get some!”
“At every show, people I've never seen approach me with the same story: how experiencing my work changed their lives and made them artists or writers or law enforcers or attorneys, believe it or not. It's very humbling and gratifying.”

Source : "Jim Steranko talks comics, his new book and coming to Tampa". Interview with Brandon Jones, www.theglobaldispatch.com. February 29, 2012.
“Did you ever see so many pee-wee hats, Carl?" "They're beanies." "They call them pee-wees in Brooklyn." "But I'm not in Brooklyn." "But you're still a Brooklynite." "I wouldn't want that to get around, Annie." "You don't mean that, Carl." "Ah, we might as well call them beanies, Annie." "Why?" "When in Rome do as the Romans do." "Do they call them beanies in Rome?" she asked artlessly. "This is the silliest conversation...”
“However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience.”
“Wet sneakers and muddy clothes are prerequisites for understanding the water cycle.”
“Natural selection is almost always handled in general temps . . This means that it has no explanatory power when specific problems arise.”
“Open innovation is a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as the firms look to advance their technology”

Source : "Clean 15 Series: Can Open Innovation Save Canadian Clean Technology?", www.cbj.ca.
“The facts of life are very stubborn things.”

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