"The complete and definitive work of art is created beyond one's individuality... ...The universal transcends such a level. Mere spontaneity has never created a work of art which possesses a lasting cultural value. The method leading to universal form is based upon calculations of measure and number."

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Source : "Elementarism". De Stijl - Van Doesburg Issue, p. 17 - 19, January 1932.

Theo van Doesburg

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“I like myself better when I'm writing regularly. ... I was influenced a lot by those around me-there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields. ... I'm a country songwriter and we write cry-in-your-beer songs. That's what we do. Something that you can slow dance to...I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad. ... Most of the stuff I've read about me has been true.”
“There is nothing like wealth for dulling desire.”
“The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.”
“People who live in fear tend to do a powerful lot of nothing.”
“My favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are!”
“Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.”
“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”

Source : Dorothea Lange, Robert Coles (1982). “Photographs of a Lifetime”
“It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live.”

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