"The reason these paintings are destined for New York is not because I am disappointed about a lack of German interest, but because MoMA asked me, and because I consider it to be the best museum in the world."

-- Gerhard Richter

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“Presbyterians are the spirit of the Antichrist.”

Source : "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy". Book by Greg Palast. p.239, 2002.
“But there was no hiding from Conscience. Not in new homes and new cars. In travel. In meditation or frantic activity. In children, in good works. On tiptoes or bended knee. In a big career. Or a small cabin. It would find you. The past always did. Which was why... it was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became the past, and the past grew. And got up, and followed you. And found you... Who wouldn't be afraid of this?”
“Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.”
“This is a little off subject, but I'm interested in those cases where someone is barking up the wrong tree, or misapplying their talent.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.”
“Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.”
“I get an awful lot of fan mail, and I read all that I can.”
“Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds of their own regeneration, with energy enough to carry over for problems and needs outside themselves.”

Source : Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.343, Random House

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