"My illusion is to have something to transmit. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it."

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Source : "Antoni Tàpies, Spanish Abstract Painter, Dies at 88" by William Grimes, www.nytimes.com. February 6, 2012.

Antoni Tapies

#People Quotes #Looks Quotes #World Quotes

“The propriety of thoughts and words, which are the hidden beauties of a play, are but confusedly judged in the vehemence of action.”
“Being deceived into thinking the perks of slavery are a good thing, we can easily aquire a preference for chains and a taste for the slaves rations.”
“Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition...The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. ~ Every class is unfit to govern ... Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.”
“My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.”
“The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.”
“2 p.m. beer nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses die and the landladies stare in the halls; brisk the music of pulled shades, a last man's cave in an eternity of swarm and explosion; nothing but the dripping sink, the empty bottle, euphoria, youth fenced in, stabbed and shaven, taught words propped up to die.”
“Beautiful. And ugly. The world is always both.”

Source : Ann Aguirre (2014). “The Razorland Trilogy”, p.845, Macmillan
“I don't want to work all of the time.”

Source : "Penelope Ann Miller, Who Stars In ‘The Artist,’ Talks Working With Harvey Weinstein" by Naughty But Nice Rob, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2012.

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