"Art takes whatever - and as long as - it takes."

-- Spider Robinson

#Art Quotes #Long Quotes

“I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.”
“They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.”
“In all these products, whether iron bridges, locomotives, automobiles, telescopes, cottages, airport-hangars, funicular railways, skyscrapers, or children's toys, the will towards a new style expresses itself. The similarity of these examples to the new creations in art consists in the same striving for clear, pure form which expresses truth in the objects.”

Source : "Theo van Doesburg". Book by Joost Baljeu, p. 123, 1974.
“We're not in the middle east to bring sweetness and light to the whole world. That's nonsense. We're in the middle east because we and our European friends and our European non-friends depend on something that comes from the middle east, namely oil.”

Source : "Neo-Cons in Doubt about the War in Iraq". KCRW Podcast "To the Point" with Warren Olney, www.kcrw.com. May 21, 2004.
“Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view.”
“The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. While lost in such cravings or aversions, we are unaware of what is happening now, what we are doing now.”
“No same man could walk through the same river twice, as the man and the river have since changed.”
“How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day it crowds things in upon it that darken and weary it.”

Source : Louis Sullivan, Robert Twombly (1988). “The Public Papers”, p.88, University of Chicago Press

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