"The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art."

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Source : Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

Ernest Becker

#Art Quotes #Personality Quotes #World Quotes

“Each instrument has something to say to you. It's got its own character. Each horn has its own character and will say to you certain things. If you violate that, it's almost a sacrilege!”
“But I always communicate with the audience. I never pretend like I'm just in my bedroom making a track. The whole point of doing a gig is, like, a feedback thing between you and the audience.”
“To put it in a terminology that hearkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geo-strategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together.”
“Shamanism is being reinvented in the West precisely because it is needed”
“You know, when I'm with my friends, I'm still 17.”
“Parenting is a constant struggle between making your kids life better and ruining your own.”
“In fact, when Bernard [Leach] would be called away to go up to London for something and we'd be living alone for a couple of days, we would dig into the storage areas in the house and we'd get out all the pots that we might not see in the course of our daily life, because we weren't using them in the house on a steady basis. But we found some fantastic pots in there tucked away, and we could look at them and examine them and handle them.”
“Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then â€” and this is the important bit â€” do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies.”

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