"Urban artist have to face the stigma not only from white Australia but black Australia too; that's horrific when people say that their art isn't "Aboriginal" if it doesn't have dots or lines or moieties in it."

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Source : Source: aboriginalartandculture.wordpress.com

Warwick Thornton

#Art Quotes #White Quotes #Australia Quotes

“Avoid all affectation and singularity. What is according to nature is best, and what is contrary to it is always distasteful. Nothing is graceful that is not our own.”
“I know something of the good of Moammar Gadhafi that made me to love him as a brother and to feel a great sense of loss at his assassination, He died in honor, fighting for the Libya that he believed in.”
“Art â€“ the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised”
“I'm sorry your pretty little world got all screwed up, but everybody's does, and you go on. It's how you go on that defines you.”
“Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.”
“I don't think I am beautiful. I can look good and I can look ugly.”

Source : "Penelope Cruz: I Don't Think I'm Beautiful". Parade Interview, parade.com. August 8, 2008.
“The rights of the individual are greatly prized in the developed world, but in many other regions they are considered a luxury reserved for the impossibly wealthy.”
“I admire Lincoln enormously and I think what's interesting about Lincoln is how he changes, it's not that he held the same view throughout his life.”

Source : "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.

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