"There is a fascination with violence and power in all modernism, and I sort of saw classic modernism as being more similar to Wyndham Lewis than to the Renaissance. It's not about flow and the presence of humanism and all those things."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

John Currin

#Fascination Quotes #Renaissance Quotes #Flow Quotes

“Sometimes family was the cruelest form of love there was, for no one could hurt you more than the people who created you.”

Source : S.C. Stephens (2013). “Effortless”, p.424, Simon and Schuster
“If we could but recognize our common humanity, that we do belong together, that our destinies are bound up in one another's, that we can be free only together, that we can be human only together, then a glorious world would come into being where all of us lived harmoniously together as members of one family, the human family.”
“I recently did a reading at an elementary school in Ottawa, and one of the children asked me if I was a girl. I said yes. Another child commented that I had a deep voice. I responded: "Can girls have deep voices?" There was a pause and then the group responded, "Yes!"”
“A rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.”
“I do think that all economies need a sense of fiscal discipline especially over the midterm and if you are in the middle of a debt crisis you can't borrow your way out of a debt crisis. That's logically impossible.”
“...An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand...”
“You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.”

Source : John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.207, Penguin
“Armstrong was the equivalent of Russia's Snowden. He has this explosive game-changing, sport-changing, world-changing evidence that he wants to bring forward, and essentially me and my film team are going to facilitate him doing that.”

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