"Art is the ability to separate the significant from the insignificant."

--

Poul Henningsen

#Art Quotes #Significant Quotes #Ability Quotes

“The most intense patriotism always flourishes in the rear.”
“Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all. I hate this moral agoraphobia -- it's the worst kind of cowardice. You can't create something without being alone. But who's trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that's just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life.”
“In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities.”
“While 9-5 and what happens on the job is important, what happens from 5-9, off the job, is infinitely more important.”
“Such is friendship, that through it we love places and seasons; for as bright bodies emit rays to a distance, and flowers drop their sweet leaves on the ground around them, so friends impart favor even to the places where they dwell. With friends even poverty is pleasant. Words cannot express the joy which a friend imparts; they only can know who have experienced. A friend is dearer than the light of heaven, for it would be better for us that the sun were exhausted than that we should be without friends.”
“Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds.”
“I have this burgeoning reputation for playing a scumbag.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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