"Nothing can be reckoned good or bad to us in this life, any further than it indisposes us for the enjoyment of another."

-- Francis Atterbury

#Future Quotes #This Life Quotes #Enjoyment Quotes

“I am a better person when I have less on my plate.”
“The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika.”
“That which endures is not one or another association of living forms, but the process of which the cosmos is the product, and of which these are among the transitory expressions.”
“Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.”
“We are all cells in the same body of humanity.”
“With regard to life, modern painting is a revolutionary activityâ€¦We need it in order to transform the world into a more humane place where mankind can live in libertyâ€¦We must accept these things with passion. It means that we must live imaginatively.”

Source : Lowery Stokes Sims, Wifredo Lam (2002). “Wifredo Lam and the International Avant-Garde, 1923-1982”
“A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.”
“Behind us lay the great Antarctic Land; snow peaks rising beyond one another until by distance they dwindled away into insignificancy. The silence and immobility of the scene was impressive; not the slightest animation or vitality anywhere. It was like a mental image of our globe in its primitive state - a spectacle of Chaos. Around is ice and snow and the remnants of internal fires; above, a sinister sky; below the sombre sea; and over all, the silence of the sepulchre!”

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