"Art is an attempt to integrate evil."

-- Simone de Beauvoir

#Art Quotes #Evil Quotes #Integrating Quotes

“With the most powerful binoculars, I cannot see Alaska.”
“When I wasn't working I didn't know what to do with myself and sort of didn't exist, in a way, when I wasn't working, so I was like two different people. I am not like that anymore.”
“Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Great, hollow, bell-like flowers”

Source : Jean Toomer (1988). “The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer”, p.10, UNC Press Books
“The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.”
“I don't have the luxury of making clothes just to make an effect. It can't be something totally frivolous, because my distributors have to have a successful season, too.”
“I was not aware of how much I loved 'Canoa' until I saw it after doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' and realized that my voice - over about the story's historical context - that narrator - came from 'Canoa'.”
“At every stage of spiritual growth, the greatest ally you have is your body.”
“Fashion is the playing area for individuals that lack interior autonomy and need more support points, but who nonetheless feel the need to stand out, to be paid attention to and be considered apart from the rest Fashion elevates the insignificant by making it in the representative of a totality, the particular incarnation of a common spirit. Its function is to make possible the kind of social obedience which is at the same time individual differentiation It is the mixing of submission and the feeling of domination that is in action here.”

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