"I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue it is senseless."

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Source : "Jonas Mekas captures one moment at a time". Interview with Molly Glentzer, www.chron.com. November 15, 2013.

Jonas Mekas

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“Right" he said "Let's get one thing clear. I am not here to teach you law-I am here to teach you loopholes.”

Source : Catherine Jinks (2008). “Evil Genius”, p.130, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for them; but the majority of people go past the doors that are half ajar, thinking them closed, and fail to notice the faint stirrings of the great curtain that hangs ever in the form of appearances between them and the world of causes behind.”

Source : Algernon Blackwood (2011). “Four Weird Tales”, p.4, The Floating Press
“The world's most effeminate heterosexual, Daniel Johns”
“If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural.”
“I believe that in public worship we should do well to be bound by no human rules, and constrained by no stereotyped order.”
“Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.”
“There will be three cats, kin of your kin, with the power of the stars in their paws. They will find a fourth, and the battle between light and dark will be won. A new leader will rise from the shadows of his death, and the clan will survive beyond thge memories of his memeries. This is how it has always been and alway will be.”
“Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.”

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