"The temple of the sylvan goddess, indeed, has vanished, and the King of the Wood no longer stands sentinel over the Golden Bough."

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Source : "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

James G. Frazer

#Kings Quotes #Woods Quotes #Golden Quotes

“I am just enjoying my youth but I want to settle down eventually.”
“Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.”
“My work is a support system for people to feel good about themselves.”

Source : Jeff Koons, Eckhard Schneider, Rudolf Sagmeister (2001). “Jeff Koons”, Kunsthaus Bregenz
“If a consensus of the majority is all it takes to determine what is right, then having and controlling information becomes extraordinarily important.”
“Political correctness kills discussion.”
“Why did Mitt Romney strap his dog to the roof of his car? Could it be because his station wagon was full of wives?”
“It reveals us to ourselves, it represents those modulations and temperamental changes which escape all verbal analysis, it utters what must else remain forever unuttered and unutterable; it feeds that deep, ineradicable instinct within us of which all art is only the reverberated echo, that craving to express, through the medium of the senses, the spiritual and eternal realities which underlie them.”
“I think everybody's crazy, and if I'm the one being a little direct about it, that's fine by me.”

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