"If there is knowledge, it lies in the fusion of the book and the street."

-- Studs Terkel

#Lying Quotes #Book Quotes #Fusion Quotes

“I've always thought live albums were cop-outs.”
“With iPhones, nobody has an excuse for writer's block. If you're at Whole Foods getting your green tea extract and you have a melody, you just drop it into your voice memo and save it for later.”
“When a man has seen the aerodynamic shape of a Caravelle jet at an airport, he doesn't need aerodynamic furniture.”
“The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle is all overscored by divine fire, that every letter of it cries out, that from everywhere the piercing finger is pointed at it, at this current generation; but the current generation laughs and presumptuously, proudly begins a series of new errors, at which their descendants will also laugh afterwards.”

Source : Nikolai Gogol (2011). “Dead Souls: A Novel”, p.215, Vintage
“The connoisseur might be defined as a laconic art historian, and the art historian as a loquacious connoisseur.”

Source : Erwin Panofsky (1955). “Meaning in the visual arts: papers in and on art history”
“Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age”
“Every generation has underestimated the potential for finding new ideas . . . Possibilities do not add up. They multiply.”
“Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.”

Source : "Zola Pieterse finds peace in native land" by Duncan Mackay, Andrew Meldrum, www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2005.

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