"That your own interpretation of a work of art is flagrantly subjective seems to be regarded as an arrogant attitude. But the truer view is that the interpretative artist can only make his own comment upon the work."

-- Tyrone Guthrie

#Art Quotes #Attitude Quotes #Views Quotes

“The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image.”

Source : "The Society of the Spectacle". Book by Guy Debord translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith (p. 34), 1995.
“I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.”
“I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four.”
“For children is there any happiness which is not also noise?”
“Today Eratosthenes' method [of calculating the circumference of the earth] seems almost banal ... yet it is inaccessible to prescientific civilizations, and in all of Antiquity not a single Latin author succeeded in stating it coherently.”

Source : "The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why it Had to Be Reborn". Book by Lucio Russo, 2004.
“By the time that product is ready to be distributed widely, it will already have established customers.”
“It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride, or even thrills from coordinated group activity.”

Source : Mark Pagel (2012). “Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind”, p.90, W. W. Norton & Company
“Come knit hands, and beat the ground in a light fantastic round”

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