"Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image."

-- Christopher Lasch

#Art Quotes #Mirrors Quotes #Messages Quotes

“It is the gift of all poets to find the commonplace astonishing, and the astonishing quite natural.”
“With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow.”
“So when you think you're the only one who can't find love in this world, tell yourself there's another one who's waiting for you somewhere.”

Source : Song: Somebody Special, Album: Foolish Behaviour
“Abu Musab al Zarqawi had such a view of holy war. More barbaric, more monstrous even than Osama bin Laden. So much so that Bin Laden opposed many of his ideas. And he did not join al Qaeda, except for one brief period after 2004 where he agreed to be badged as al Qaeda in Mesopotamia.”
“A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Beware of assumptions that seem "obvious" in one decade. They may become quaint in the next.”
“My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.”
“life is not so long that one can grow tired of it”

Source : Amin Maalouf (1999). “Ports of call”, Harvill Press

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