"Art is a form of consciousness."

-- Susan Sontag

#Art Quotes #Consciousness Quotes #Form Quotes

“Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.”
“Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.”
“You have to be tenacious, you have to be focused, you have to have a real vision, and be extremely passionate about it.”

Source : "Jessica Alba Is Quietly Building an Empire" by Kristin Tice Studeman, www.elle.com. March 24, 2015.
“[Buckminster Fuller] always liked to say that he got kicked out of Harvard three times. Mostly you only got kicked out once, but he kept coming back.”
“I ride really well and I shoot a gun really well. I love the genre. Once I did Westerns, I was hooked. I love them, but there's been very few of them made. I never wanted to play a guy who was acting like a cowboy. I wanted to play someone who had a real life, but was also trapped into situations.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves. A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn't the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn't flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.”
“As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do not understand sexism or if they do they think it is not a problem. Masses of people think that feminism is always and only about women seeking to be equal to men. And a huge majority of these folks think feminism is anti-male. Their misunderstanding of feminist politics reflects the reality that most folks learn about feminism from patriarchal mass media.”
“It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own life is associated with trees.”

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