"Art is manipulation without intervention."

-- Louise Bourgeois

#Art Quotes #Manipulation Quotes #Art Is Quotes

“Photographs need to demand the viewer's attention, often implicitly, posing questions as to the nature of what is being depicted. Photographs are not there to show us the world, but to show us a version of what may be happening.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.”
“Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.”
“By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.”

Source : Gene Sharp (2010). “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation”, p.5, Albert Einstein Institution
“Prose proposes, verse reverses.”
“Having a gun in your hand is very empowering.”
“My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.”

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