"In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty."

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Source : Liner notes for studio album "Pleasures of the Harbor" by Phil Ochs, October 31, 1967.

Phil Ochs

#Ugly Quotes #Protest Quotes

“I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.”
“To turn to the Lord and to trust him through revelation will help any individual, at any time, in any part of the world, understand and interpret correctly and righteously life's experiences from the only true perspective, which is the Lord's perspective revealed to man. To turn to the Lord and to trust his revelations is live in such a way as to resist the floods and the winds of doubt and uncertainty.”
“A lot times you have your frame very much in mind and you're waiting for things to fall in place.”
“You live more in five minutes on a bike like this going flat out than some people live in a lifetime.”

Source : "Fictional character: Burt Munro". "The World's Fastest Indian", 2005.
“We will make it so that a Democrat cannot govern as a Democrat.”
“I suppose I felt doomed to be an artist early on because of the way I drew all over the books that I needed for school, from ancient history to math. I was more interested in drawing in the margins than actually doing the work.”

Source : "Art as a Continuum". Art21 Interview, art21.org.
“I hadn't thought about the fact that I was a foster child but, did notice that (in films) I'm often without a mother or father or both.”
“No matter what I choose to become, I believe I can change the world. And as I am striving to change the world, I will be happy.”

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