"My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I donâ€™t see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity. To make humanity uncomfortable, yes. But intrinsically to be against humanity, that I donâ€™t take."

-- Chinua Achebe

#Art Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.”
“I gotta go on doin' it the way I see it...I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I'm here to have a party while I'm on this earth...I'm gettin' it now, today. I don't even know where I'm gonna be twenty years from now, so I'm just gonna keep on rockin', cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me...man, there ain't gonna be nothing left for Janis.”
“Thereâ€™s this idea that somehow youâ€™ve got to keep changing things, and as often as possible. Maybe if people just decided not to buy anything for a while, theyâ€™d get a chance to think about what they wanted; what they really liked.”
“Most films, it doesn't matter if you see them or not.”
“It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir.”
“What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .”
“If anyone has it rough at Guantanamo, it is the guards. They are constantly harassed and threatened by some of these terrorists. Prisoners tell guards, we know where your families are. We know where your wife is, your children, and we are going to kill them.”
“Happiness is always there. You just have to choose to see it. There's no point dwelling in the dark and ignoring the light of the stars.”

Source : FaceBook post by Carrie Hope Fletcher from Feb 15, 2014

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