"It art can only succeed through the cooperating imagination and intelligence of its consumers, who fill out, for themselves, the artist's world and make it round, and whose own special genius partly determine the ultimate glory of it."

-- William H. Gass

#Art Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Empathy Quotes

“When I was 22, I thought I couldn't wear heels because of my height.”
“Consequentialist theories pretend that we can set some great big ends (the general happiness, human flourishing), provide ourselves with definite enough conceptions of them to make them the objects of instrumental reasoning, and then obtain enough reliable information about what actions will best promote them that we could regulate our conduct by these considerations alone.”
“We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.”
“Climb the day, Drop your dreams, Possess the day.”
“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
“Poverty is good for nothing, except perhaps for football.”
“People need to be edited; life needs to be edited. I need to be edited.”

Source : "Q&A: André Leon Talley". Interview with Luisa Zargani, wwd.com. February 28, 2013.
“I don't mean I give the same intensity to everything I do - if I did that, I'd be dead, but I'm very conscious, I make notes, and I have a fairly good idea of what's happening in my life.”

Source : "The Strange World Of... David Toop". Interview with Karen Shook, thequietus.com. June 28, 2016.

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