"Nothing is more hackneyed than the liberal dogma that shock value confers automatic importance on an artwork."

-- Camille Paglia

#Dogma Quotes #Artwork Quotes #Shock Quotes

“Everybody has their own story; everybody has their own journey.”
“What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.”
“Community cannot take root in a divided life. Long before community assumes external shape and form, it must be present as seed in the undivided self: only as we are in communion with ourselves can we find community with others. Community is an outward and visible sign of an inward and invisible grace, the flowing of personal identity and integrity into the world of relationships.”

Source : Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.92, John Wiley & Sons
“I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.”
“Events and developments, such as ... the Copernican Revolution, ... occurred only because some thinkers either decided not to be bound by certain "obvious" methodological rules, or because they unwittingly broke them.”
“The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the savior of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin.”

Source : Catholic Church. Pope (1846-1878 : Pius IX), John R. Sheets, Pope Pius IX (1854). “Ineffabilis Deus: Defining the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception : Apostolic Constitution of Pius IX, Issued December 8, 1854”, p.21
“We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.”
“It's odd. Though I've spent years working with and creating images, I feel most comfortable expressing myself through writing. I'd been in denial about this for many years. At school I was highly lauded as having the potential to write one day, but being a typically rebellious and misguided teenager I opted to study art. Ironically language has pervaded all the work I have done - from my first forays into an art practice many years ago to my work with typography and book design.”

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