"If an artist does not have an erotic involvement with everything that he sees, he may as well give up. To be a human being may a very messy thing, but to be an artist is something else entirely, because art is religion, art is sex, art is society. Art is everything."

-- Lucas Samaras

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“Under our thatch, friend, place shall abide for you, touch but the latch, friend, the door will swing wide for you!”
“I don't know how anyone can put on a uniform and not care about winning.”
“Kiddies, Graphic Design, if you wield it effectively, is Power. Power to transmit ideas that change everything. Power that can destroy an entire race or save a nation from despair. In this century, Germany chose to do the former with the swastika, and America opted for the latter with Mickey Mouse and Superman.”

Source : Chip Kidd (2002). “The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters”, p.177, Simon and Schuster
“The thought that our lives are the source of other people's unhappiness, that's plain unbearable.”
“Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good, bad, it happens unfortunately. But in a way I think if there was more focus on the good, more good would happen.”
“I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life.”
“EVERYONE suddenly burst out singing; And I was filled with such delight As prisoned birds must find in freedom, Winging wildly across the white Orchards and dark-green fields; onâ€”onâ€”and out of sight. Everyoneâ€™s voice was suddenly lifted; And beauty came like the setting sun: My heart was shaken with tears; and horror Drifted away ... O, but Everyone Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done.”
“He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated.”

Source : "The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, or, A Commentary on Littleton". Book by Charles Butler, Edward Coke, Matthew Hale, and Thomas de Littleton, 1832.

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