"Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention."

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Guy Davenport

#Art Quotes #Attention Quotes #Indifference Quotes

“I try to execute pitches and get guys out.”
“If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough.”
“When it goes wrong, you feel like cutting your throat, but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.”
“I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.”
“But, in the end, we editors just pass through. We all know that you, the readers, are the real carriers of the flame.”

Source : "'Farewell, readers': Alan Rusbridger on leaving the Guardian after two decades at the helm". www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2015.
“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
“That I feel a desire, my friends, that we in this latter day of the world, in which light is fast spreading, that we should be willing to attend to those portions of the Scriptures of truth that direct us home to the foundation.”

Source : Elias Hicks (1828). “The Quaker, Being a Series of Sermons by Members of the Society of Friends ...”, p.217
“The important part of dreaming is what you do when you wake up.”

Source : Dal LaMagna (2010). “Raising Eyebrows: A Failed Entrepreneur Finally Gets it Right”, p.19, John Wiley & Sons

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