"It is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past must be destroyed."

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Source : "Boulez in his own words" by Claire Kohda Hazelton, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2015.

Pierre Boulez

#Art Quotes #Past Quotes #Doe Quotes

“One word, in this place, respecting asparagus. The young shoots of this plant, boiled, are the most unexceptionable form of greens with which I am acquainted.”
“People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.”
“Some of the most important people in my life would be shocked to learn that they were role models. They weren't celebrities, or even particularly accomplished. But they had some quality that I admired, that made me want to be like them.”
“A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it.”
“For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.”
“Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.”
“So many people among non-scientists see science as an unassailable monolith of truth, and it's not. It's an ongoing self-correcting process.”

Source : "Stephen Hawking at 70: Fellow scientists pay tribute" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.
“We are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That's kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It's not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.”

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