"Weâ€™re destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it."

-- Ishmael

#War Quotes #World Quotes #Way Quotes

“We have pledged ourselves, and of this the United Nations of the world are witness, to give the fullest opportunity for attainment of self-government by India as soon as hostilities are over. I repeat that that is beyond doubt.”
“Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art.”

Source : Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press
“An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between the number of cases seen and the number of cases assimilated is the measure of experience.”
“People often criticize my films for being pessimistic; there are certainly many reasons for being pessimistic but I donâ€™t see my films that way. Theyâ€™re founded in the belief that revolution doesnâ€™t belong on the cinema screen but outside in the world. Never mind if a film ends pessimistically but exposes certain mechanisms clearly enough to show people how they work and the ultimate effect is not pessimistic. My goal is to reveal such mechanisms in a way that makes people realize the necessity of changing their own reality.”
“Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite fields, algebra, combinatorics and computers.”
“Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to tell stories, but I never had the patience to sit down at a typewriter and write short stories or anything like that. I started writing songs as a way of communicating ideas the best way I could.”
“Today I have a choice. I can resist reality and suffer pain or peacefully accept what I cannot change.”
“Paint the essential character of things.”

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