"Kitsch is deep in its superficiality. Art is superficially deep."

-- Odd Nerdrum

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“I initially moved to Switzerland for work on an animated feature film, and have been here ever since.”
“I believe that love takes time. I believe there is such a thing as infatuation at first sight, but not love at first sight.”

Source : Kevin Leman (1992). “Were You Born for Each Other?: Finding, Catching, and Keeping the Love of Your Life”, Dell Books
“People who don't know any better will always be in the dark because the power lies in the hands of men who take good care that ordinary folk don't understand, in the hands, that is, of the government, of the clerical party, of the capitalists.”
“It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff.”
“I tell you, my friends,â€™ he said one day. â€˜I tell you that I am the only sane man in the regiment. Itâ€™s the others that are mad, but they donâ€™t know it. They fight a war and they donâ€™t know what for. Isnâ€™t that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different colour uniform and speaks a different language? And itâ€™s me they call mad!”
“My urge, when I go to the store, is to buy everything. And it's the same when I'm composing. My first instinct is basically to bring the whole store home, and not make a decision about how things play out.”
“All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.”
“Every musical scene has a cycle.”

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