"Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own enlightenment."

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Source : Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.9, Harvard University Press

Ben Shahn

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“Yeah, I do like scary movies, especially the ones that don't take themselves too seriously.”
“There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.”
“As a teenager I went all Goth, but I wasn't mopey enough. I would pretend to be, but I'd end up making people laugh.”
“So many things we love are you!”
“Good means ultimately he's producing character in me to conform me into the image of Christ.”

Source : Source: culteducation.com
“Our system - of debt-fueled economic growth, of ineffective democracy, of overloading planet Earth - is eating itself alive.”
“If we were not called upon to work in order to survive, we might simply lie around all day doing nothing.”
“In a world where we can all be our own filmmakers, the old elites are disappearing and there is no desire to look at somebody else's dream anymore because you can go off and make your own.”

Source : "Rome Interview: Peter Greenaway On ‘Goltzius And The Pelican Company,’ Sergei Eisenstein, 3D & The Future Of Cinema" by Jessica Kiang, www.indiewire.com. November 19, 2012.

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