"The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with."

-- Golda Meir

#Art Quotes #Knowing Quotes #People Quotes

“How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?”

Source : Rosamond Lehmann (1975). “The ballad and the source”, Harvest Books
“Each religion is a brave guess at the authorship of Hamlet. Yet, as far as the play goes does it make any difference whether Shakespeare or Bacon wrote it? Would it make any difference to the actors if their parts happened out of nothingness, if they found themselves acting on the stage because of some gross and unpardonable accident? Would it make any difference if the playwright gave them the lines or whether they composed them themselves, so long as the lines were properly spoken? Would it make any difference to the characters if A Midsummer Night's Dream was really a dream?”
“There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.”
“We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust. That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust.”
“Helping others is like helping yourself.”
“Being patient, feeling comfortable, taking my walks-that's part of my game.”
“I recommend Doug Sweeney's recent book [Jonathan] Edwards the Exegete (Oxford University Press, 2015), which is a terrific treatment of the way in which Edwards was steeped in the Bible, so that it shaped the whole of his thinking.”
“Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization.”

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