"Art should become as one with its surroundings."

-- Isamu Noguchi

#Life Quotes #Art Quotes #Surroundings Quotes

“Many things have changed in our culture here in England as a direct result of the Pistols: the whole street-fashion thing in London, for example, or the coverage of popular culture in the national press, or the fact that the film industry is now about young people making films about young British issues.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?”

Source : FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Jun 30, 2010
“All great ideas are dangerous.”
“Poetry, unlike music, is a meta-art, and relies upon non-physical structures for the production of its effects. In its case, the medium is syntax, grammar and logical continuity, which together form the carrier-wave of plain sense within which its deeper meanings are broadcast.”
“Introducing someone as a "Negro poet with a University degree" or again, quite simply, the expression, "a great black poet." These ready-made phrases, which seem in a common-sense way to fill a need-or have a hidden subtlety, a permanent rub.”
“Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.”

Source : "Is Linux For Losers?" by Daniel Lyons, www.forbes.com. June 16, 2005.
“There's somewhat of a real fascination with American bands and American mythology in London, so I think we've tapped into some of that. Maybe because of the way the press works or whatever, they have extremely knowledgeable music fans over there. People who will sit there and talk to you about some record that came out in 1967 out of Memphis that you've never heard before.”
“The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool, while tricky, is extraordinarily powerful and convenient.”

Source : Benoit B. Mandelbrot (2013). “Fractals and Scaling in Finance: Discontinuity, Concentration, Risk. Selecta Volume E”, p.16, Springer Science & Business Media

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