"I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artistâ€¦..I had lost all interest in the art shown in galleries and museums, and I no longer aspired to fit in that world. I loved the paintings done by children, and my only desire was to do the same for my own pleasure."

-- Jean Dubuffet

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“(To someone at New York University) If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.”
“My purpose at that time was to expand my experience of the world and to immerse myself as deeply as I could in powerful events that I thought would begin to help me understand the world, and myself, in larger ways. Looking back, it's difficult to imagine my life without the Congo now.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“As a very young man I signed a declaration - 'I renounce war and will never support another'. That was in 1939 and I have maintained this stand throughout the whole period, including WW2, as a Conscientious Objector.Worked to achieve Peace since. It is necessary for individuals to take this stand and maintain it. War never solves anything - it accentuates any problem, whatever it is, and makes matters worse. There is no moral or humanitarian justification for it.”
“You go shake your foundations, Will. I think it's about time I saved myself.”
“Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of truth or falsity, if only because banalities are by definition accurate.”

Source : Perry Anderson (2005). “Spectrum”, p.76, Verso
“The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; its love - that one principle.”
“The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle is all overscored by divine fire, that every letter of it cries out, that from everywhere the piercing finger is pointed at it, at this current generation; but the current generation laughs and presumptuously, proudly begins a series of new errors, at which their descendants will also laugh afterwards.”

Source : Nikolai Gogol (2011). “Dead Souls: A Novel”, p.215, Vintage
“If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.”

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