"This is something essential to art: reception is never its goal. What counts for me is that my work provides material to reflect upon. Reflection is an activity."

-- Thomas Hirschhorn

#Art Quotes #Reflection Quotes #Goal Quotes

“It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.”
“Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.”
“We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be "informavores", epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an endless quest to improve our purchase on the world, the better to make decisions about our subjectively open future.”
“children once settled and confident can mostly be left, it seems, to manage their difficulties without us. Only what we must do, always and unalterably, is hold their hand firmly in general goodwill, then they themselves seem to deal with their own particular troubles far better than we can.”
“It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.”
“Don't let not knowing how it'll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.”

Source : FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Aug 29, 2014
“Without doubt machines will be able to determine the means and avenues to goals, but men will continue to set the goals themselves. For what machine can ever apply the considerations of compassion and justice which, as man's enlightenment spreads ... will enter ever more into the decisions that affect his future ... in the universe?”
“Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.”

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