"Making a garden is somehow like conducting a symphony - different plants come forward at different times and you need to think very carefully about their placement in relation to each other."

-- Elisabeth Murdoch

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“A career high was when I did a cover for W Magazines July issue with Steven Meisel. So few girls shoot with Meisel in their career, and a lot of people had told me I would never achieve that, so it was a dream come true.”
“At first I didn't understand what [Thelonious Monk] was doing, but I went back again, and what I can say about Monk is that I heard ancient Africa in his music. When he played, it was like a ballet. He captured the sound of the universe. Monk could take a triad, a simple chord, and make it sound dissonant. I'm sure that element he had in his piano was part of the two years he spent traveling with his mother in gospel music in the tent shows.”
“I have not attempted to try to relive or recreate the past; but I have sought guidance from those timeless elements in the past which remain valid and vital to the future ... The purpose of my art is to seek beauty and truth, and to explore and glorify the human being and the universe.”
“The Whig interpretation of history ... is the tendency in many historians to write on the side of Protestants and Whigs, to praise revolutions provided they have been successful, to emphasise certain principles of progress in the past and to produce a story which is the ratification if not the glorification of the present.”

Source : Herbert Butterfield (1931). “The Whig interpretation of history”
“Since I was gay and loved disco music, it was kinda pre-programmed that my first experiences with house music and acid - which I first heard in the late 80s, mainly through DÃ¼sseldorf's ruling clubs, Relaxx and Ratinger Hof - completely mesmerized me.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Youâ€™ll be all right. Youâ€™re strong. I know youâ€™ll be okay because I like you and you canâ€™t like someone who doesnâ€™t like themself. The people I fear for are the ones who I donâ€™t like because they hate themselves so much they wonâ€™t let anyone else like them either. But I do like you. Iâ€™ll miss you. And I know youâ€™ll be okay.”
“A proud man never shows his pride so much as when he is civil.”
“Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws.”

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