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“I can't see any difference in government between Bush and Obama apart from the color of their skin.”
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“The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing. There is only one solution for me: to turn my head away.”
Source : "Why JRR Tolkien's Son Hates What Peter Jackson Has Done" by Devin Faraci, Birth.Movies.Death, birthmoviesdeath.com. January 9, 2013.
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“A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense ahistorical.”
Source : Juliet Mitchell (1984). “Women: The Longest Revolution”, Pantheon
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“Words are dangerous things.”
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“Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts of sensible divinity-light of the world, essential loveliness.”
Source : Alan Seeger (2001). “Poems”
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“Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of thinking: a way of skeptically interrogating the universe.”
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“If you want peace, be peace. If you want wealth, be wealth. Think it. Talk it. Prepare yourself to have it. Have faith enough to seek guidance and authority from within.”
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“We know only what we do, what we make, what we construct; and all that we make, all that we construct, are realities. I call them images , not in Plato's sense (namely that they are only reflections of reality), but I hold that these images are the reality itself and that there is no reality beyond this reality except when in our creative process we change the images: then we have created new realities.”
Source : Eidos: A Journal of Painting, Sculpture, and Design, No. 1, p. 31, 1950.