"The newsprint thesp celebrity interview as a middle-brow art form suffers from desperate overproduction. There'll be at least 10 in the broadsheets today and every Sunday hereafter."

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Peter York

#Art Quotes #Sunday Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“Mr. Searle became a satirist, he once said, because ‘in the late '30s, things in general and politics in particular were no longer neatly divided into things black and white. On top of this,’ he added, ‘there was the irresistible impulse to draw. I cannot remember wanting to be anything else other than an artist.’”
“One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't listen to them.”
“Its easy to gauge the worth of a man, just ask them what they think of Yoko Ono.”
“Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it”
“Watch well each separate citizen, Lest having in his heart of hearts A secret spear, one still may come Saluting you with cheerful face, And utter with a double tongue The feigned good wishes of his wary mind.”
“Persecutors are almost always former Victims.”
“By bringing shame to a person, how could one expect to make him a better man?”

Source : "Hagakure". Book by Yamamoto Tsunetomo and Nabeshima Mitsushige, circa 1716.
“It is not possible to remake the world. You can fix parts, but you can't remake the world.”

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