"Journalistic information and presentation actually discourage action... we think we know, and because we think we know, we think we care. But it stops there."

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Source : Alfredo Jaar, Willie Avon Drake, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (1991). “Alfredo Jaar: geography”, Virginia Commonwealth Univ

Alfredo Jaar

#Thinking Quotes #Care Quotes #Information Quotes

“In my mind I'ma fighter, my heart's a lighter, my soul is the fluid. My flow sparks it right up.”
“The women in my family are just strong women who do their own thing, so I knew I needed to have individuals like that.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
“We just said, 'Okay, you're in the movie. Bring what you would bring for a three-day weekend and I hope you like the way you look in it because once you're on camera, that's your wardrobe.' But it worked; it worked and we were very surprised.”
“The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us. Thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing. The trees wave and the flowers bloom in our bodies as well as our souls, and every bird song, wind song, and tremendous storm song of the rocks in the heart of the mountains is our song, our very own, and sings our love.”

Source : John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.92, Univ of Wisconsin Press
“I wonder if Harley-Davidson makes a unicycle”
“I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.”
“The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but the ;thesis that the exercise of this right redounds to the general good.”

Source : Ralph Barton Perry (1964). “Puritanism and Democracy”
“All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one.”

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