"I think that artists provide questions, not answers. We provide provocations rather than fully formed objects."

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Source : Source: www.artpractical.com

Kehinde Wiley

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“I like the monastic life... in the prayer and the praising... this has charged me with new energy, spiritual energy. This is very important for my ministry outside the monastery.”
“Fashion doesn't look good only on models; it can look good on different people of different ages and different body shapes.”

Source : "When fashion and reality collide". Interview with Emanuella Grinberg, www.cnn.com. July 30, 2012.
“The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many.”
“I've discovered that people don't actually want to have things spoiled, and they really try to avoid spoilers.”
“If we turn to early Irish literature, as we naturally may, to see what sort of people the Irish were in the infancy of the race, we find ourselves wandering in delighted bewilderment through a darkness shot with lightning and purple flame.”

Source : 1947 The Irish.
“The most dramatic instances of directed behavior change and "mind control" are not the consequence of exotic forms of influence, such as hypnosis, psychotropic drugs, or "brainwashing," but rather the systematic manipulation of the most mundane aspects of human nature over time in confining settings.”

Source : Philip Zimbardo (2011). “The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil”, p.258, Random House
“The body is a boat that carries the soul in the ocean of the world. If it is not strong, or it has a hole, then it cannot cross the ocean, so the first duty is to fix the boat.”
“Men with style are great because they have a sense of self.”

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