"The duty of the artist is not to be calculating in any sense, so that he may be free himself of human emotions while carried by the universal forces of life. Only then does one not think about making art, or about styles, or directions. Something comes about, something happens."

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Source : "Karel Appel - the complete sculptures". Edited by Harry de Visser and Roland Hagenberg, 1990.

Karel Appel

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“I try to make music that's really real. I've always liked music that makes me feel something. I'm not a brain first, music second person.”

Source : Source: www.pauseculture.com
“Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.”
“We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.”
“There are legions of [Aquarian, New Age, One World Religion] conspirators. They are in corporations, universities, and hospitals, on the faculties of public schools, in factories and doctors offices, in state and federal agencies, on city councils, and the White House staff, in state legislatures, in volunteer organizations, in virtually all arenas of policy making in the country.”
“When you live far away, home looks a little different every time.”

Source : "The Israeli Inspiration for 'Homeland'" by Ruth Margalit, www.newyorker.com. September 26, 2012.
“Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls.”
“There is a connection waiting to be made between the decline in democratic participation and the explosion in new ways of communicating. We need not accept the paradox that gives us more ways than ever to speak, and leaves the public with a wider feeling than ever before that their voices are not being heard. The new technologies can strengthen our democracy, by giving us greater opportunities than ever before for better transparency and a more responsive relationship between government and electors”
“One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them ...”

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