"The world loves a clone and a good knock-off. It cheats the artist... In the obsession for technical wizardry, people disappear; and if your voice isn't present in a relationship, you don't matter."

-- Alonzo King

#Artist Quotes #Voice Quotes #People Quotes

“For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat.”

Source : Independent on Sunday, June 09, 1991.
“To identify your own idols, ask questions like these: What things take the place of God in my life? Where do I find my significance and my confidence? What things make me really angry? Anger usually erupts when an idol gets knocked off the shelf.”
“The only way to make a man worthy of love is by loving him.”
“It was the family tradition. I wanted to live up to the name-McNair.”
“In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.”

Source : "Major goes back to the old values" by Patrick Wintour and Stephen Bates, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 1993.
“And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership.”
“Work, which is considered an expression of a personâ€™s value, also becomes a part of oneâ€™s spirituality and achieves the higher aim of the Supreme Good”
“People will protect what they love.”

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