"The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men, and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations."

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Source : Attributed to Glenn Gould in "Glenn Gould: Music and Mind" by Geoffrey Payzant, (p. 64), 1978.

Glenn Gould

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“He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.”
“It seemed to her as though everything that was good and true had been blasted out of the world. All those things had been crushed destroyed made to disappear.”
“I feel the responsibility of the novelist is to create a very complex world populated by very complex individuals and to deepen that as much as possible. I don't think the responsibility of the reporter or journalist is fundamentally different.”
“I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway.”
“No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.”
“Differences can be a strength.”
“In design man becomes what he is. Animals have language and perception as well, but they do not design.”

Source : Otl Aicher (2015). “The World as Design: Writings of Design”, p.6, John Wiley & Sons
“People are talking about immigration like it is a disease. In fact migrants pay more in than they get out.”

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