"The opportunity to think with another mind is my preferred mode of travel."

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Eula Biss

#Opportunity Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Mind Quotes

“The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.”

Source : "Takeshi Kitano: one original gangster". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2010.
“Nothing is more precious than peace. Peace is the most basic starting point for the advancement of humankind.”

Source : Ho Chi Minh's political slogan as quoted in Jean Sainteny "Ho Chi Minh and His Vietnam: A Personal Memoir" (p. 172), 1972.
“It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?”
“How strange it would be if the final theory were to be discovered in our lifetimes! The discovery of the final laws of nature will mark a discontinuity in human intellectual history, the sharpest that has occurred since the beginning of modern science in the seventeenth century. Can we now imagine what that would be like?”
“I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.”
“But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.”
“You know, I do not know, I just want to date someone who makes me happy.”
“Anything that is as old as racism is in the blood line of the nation. It's not any superficial thing-that attitude is in the blood and we have to educate about it.”

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