"This is what I call participation in the world of ideas. That is what art-making is."

-- Bill T. Jones

#Art Quotes #Ideas Quotes #World Quotes

“Dance music was on its arse before we came along.”
“There is no formula. We all must become spirited inventors. There's no single answer - not even a single starting point. Even the 'teachers' ... don't offer us the answer. They do offer us approaches, ways of thinking, possibilities we can adapt, and hope that might generate in us wholly new ideas.”
“Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes.”
“There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.”

Source : "The world, the flesh & the devil" by Bernard Berenson, (p. 3), 1929.
“I shop more than most women.”
“In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it is irresistible, and therefore those who can at all resist it ought to resist it. Be a plain topographer if you possibly can; if Nature meant you to be anything else, she will force you to it; but never try to be a prophet.”
“I am cruel and I am selfish, but this need I have inside me, this need for you and no other, is stronger than anything else I've ever encountered. I doubt two years of lockup would dull it in the slightest.”
“I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.”

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