"Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning."

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Source : "Anselm Kiefer’s Remembrance of Things Past" by Kisa Lala, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2010.

Anselm Kiefer

#Ideas Quotes #Ruins Quotes #Debris Quotes

“I want to catch Mr Whitlam with his pants down.”
“DSM-IV is the fabrication upon which psychiatry seeks acceptance by medicine in general. Insiders know it is more a political than scientific documentâ€¦ DSM-IV has become a bible and a money making bestsellerâ€”its major failings notwithstanding.”
“Scientific medicine is one of the greatest triumphs of humankind.”

Source : Raymond Tallis (2015). “Hippocratic Oaths: Medicine and its Discontents”, p.7, Atlantic Books Ltd
“I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That's why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things a person can do.”
“Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.”
“That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter does a painting, and he paints it, and that's it, you know. He has the joy of creating it, it hangs on a wall, and somebody buys it, and maybe somebody buys it again, or maybe nobody buys it and it sits up in a loft somewhere until he dies. But he never, you know, nobody ever, nobody ever said to Van Gogh, 'Paint a Starry Night again, man!' You know? He painted it and that was it.”
“I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute certainty.”
“I am a victim of my own behavior.”

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