"THE ARTISTIC IMAGE IS ALWAYS A METONYM, WHERE ONE THING IS SUBSTITUTED FOR ANOTHER, THE SMALLER FOR THE GREATER. TO TELL OF WHAT IS LIVING, THE ARTIST USES SOMETHING DEAD; TO SPEAK OF THE INFINITE, HE SHOWS THE FINITE."

-- Andrei Tarkovsky

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“Entrust a secret to one whose importance will not be much increased by divulging it.”
“Every interview with a public figure should include the question "What have you been wrong about, and how did that change your views?" The answer will tell us if the person is intellectually honest or a tale spinner with delusions of infallibility.”

Source : Stewart Brand (2010). “Whole Earth Discipline: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, RestoredWildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary”, p.243, Penguin
“There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.”

Source : "The Armies of the Night". Book by Norman Mailer, 1968.
“Enemies are so stimulating.”
“Make a good use of the present.”
“Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, theyâ€™ll say youâ€™re crazy and youâ€™re blasphemous, and theyâ€™ll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake up in India and tell your friends and relations, â€˜My goodness, Iâ€™ve just discovered that Iâ€™m God,â€™ theyâ€™ll laugh and say, â€˜Oh, congratulations, at last you found out.”
“I'm not against Twitter or Facebook. I'm not against anything. Never say never.”
“Psychosclerosis: the hardening of the attitude which causes a person to cease dreaming, seeing, thinking, and leading.”

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