"What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images."

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Johan Huizinga

#Art Quotes #History Quotes #Common Quotes

“If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.”
“The proper direction of man's thought is not toward the creation of new laws for government, but toward the acceptance of every person's moral dignity.”
“I cannot say why I wanted to paint.The only answer is in the pictures themselves.”

Source : "My Life". Book by Oskar Kokoschka, 1974.
“Here the oppression of women is very subtle. If we take female circumcision, the excision of the clitoris, it is done physically in Egypt. But here it is done psychologically and by education. So even if women have the clitoris, the ***** was banned; it was removed by Freudian theory and by the mainstream culture.”
“I think my favorite Rolling Stones song is "No Expectations." I always think and talk through songs.”
“The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.”
“I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I am.”
“I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia.”

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