"There is no progress in art."

-- Ilya Ehrenburg

#Art Quotes #Progress Quotes

“You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.”
“The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.”
“Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.”

Source : Ferdinand Mount (2010). “Subversive Family”, p.34, Simon and Schuster
“You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.”

Source : Paula Fox (2016). “The Slave Dancer”, p.19, Open Road Media
“All I want to do is sing on other people's records.”
“God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.”
“I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.”
“Being smart young men, they say to themselves, "I want to get married, have a family, and I understand my wife wants to work too. Do you, Vicki, know how to help us do that?" Because they're no longer looking at that prospective wife, saying, "Well this is wonderful, you're getting educated, but of course as soon as we get married, you're going to stay home and make babies."”

Source : Interview with Erik Hansen, tompeters.com.

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