"I really do think of them as post-minimalist sculptures, inspired in large part by some very early spacecraft that NASA built."

-- Trevor Paglen

#Thinking Quotes #Sculpture Quotes #Inspired Quotes

“Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects -themselves.”

Source : "Lead time". Book by Garry Wills, 1983.
“Sometimes they do things to make me do the opposite of what they think, I think, they think, I am going to do.”
“The Heritage Foundation is the premier think tank, research organization. The premier idea group for the conservative movement.”

Source : "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 6, 2012.
“I've taken all the scandals back and made them part of my story and my music.”
“I have been painting white people for much longer in my life than I have done for colored people.”
“To educate the masses politically does not mean, cannot mean, making a political speech. What it means is to try, relentlessly and passionately, to teach the masses that everything depends on them; that if we stagnate it is their responsibility, and that if we go forward it is due to them too, that there is no such thing as a demiurge, that there is no famous man who will take the responsibility for everything, but that the demiurge is the people themselves and the magic hands are finally only the hands of the people.”

Source : Frantz Fanon (1968). “The Wretched of the Earth”
“Ya know, I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing - a hamburger and fries to go - but to him it was just the greatest thing ever, and he was going to make it the greatest thing ever for everybody else, and he did.”
“Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.”

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