"I didn't know Michael Heizer until I was preparing for my "Earthworks" show in 1968, and somebody called and told me to look at his work. Heizer had already made land art before any of the others and was deeply into it. But he was very young and working out West, so I wasn't aware of his work until he came and showed it to me."

-- Virginia Dwan

#Art Quotes #Work Out Quotes #Art Is Quotes

“Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties their nationalism. Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as a crystal, the synthesis -- German National Socialism.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I just had a baby. I'm not going to work unless it's something really special and meaningful, because I can't imagine missing all that time with my daughter.”
“When you are at sea, keep clear of the land.”
“The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful?”
“We fought hard for socialism in a devastating war of independence and reunification. To build an affluent and prosperous society, we chose the path of a socialist market economy. We have achieved strong economic growth, and yet the sense of solidarity in our society has not been lost. This is very important to people.”
“You weren't made to fit in. You were born to stand out!”
“That which we call a snob by any other name would still be snobbish.”
“We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.”

Source : "Novelist-playwright Ariel Dorfman". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 1, 2011.

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