"These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual."

-- Joan D. Vinge

#Eye Quotes #Age Quotes #Comfort Quotes

“McDonald's Meets Moschino at Milan Fashion Week”
“When the established members of academia start becoming vocal as to how poor your art is, then you know you're on to something.”
“On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do.”
“I eat a lot. I eat three times a day and I snack.”
“Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.”
“Nancy Reagan fell down and broke her hair.”
“I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. The expression of human feelings and the passions of man certainly interest me deeply, but I am less concerned with expressing the motions of the soul and mind than to render visible, so to speak, the inner flashes of intuition which have something divine in their apparent insignificance and reveal magic, even divine horizons, when they are transposed into the marvellous effects of pure plastic art.”
“Of course, I will keep myself fit, keep my boots clean and you never know.”

Source : "From Guv'nor to gaffer". Interview with Paolo Bandini, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2006.

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