"We are sparks that must glow as brightly as possible."

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Source : "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 5), 2002.

Asger Jorn

“Why is the press America's showcase for freedom? Because just about everything else has been regulated.”
“I've tried everything. I can say to you with confidence, I know a fair amount about LSD. I've never been a social user of any of these things, but my curiosity has carried me into a lot of interesting areas.”
“I tour alone. There's no sound check, no back up. I stay with the hosts I am in a family home and it's really nourishing. I just have to remember after the show not to run out into the living room in my pyjamas. Every day, it's a new relationship being built. It's odd and wonderful.”
“The visual possibility of seeing the historical person (as opposed to the eternal Qur'anic man) on screen is arguably the single most important event allowing Iranians access to modernity.”

Source : Hamid Dabashi (2001). “Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, and Future”, p.15, Verso
“The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.”
“The English mind is intelligent rather than intellectual. The French are intellectual in the sense that the intellect is emancipated and left free to run its own course.”

Source : Ralph Barton Perry (1918). “The Present Conflict of Ideals: A Study of the Philosophical Background of the World War”
“Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we can ALL be brave!”

Source : Geraldine McCaughrean (2010). “Peter Pan in Scarlet”, p.97, Oxford University Press - Children
“I don't look at polls, I pay no attention to them. I pay attention to the public, and the sense of where the public is on certain things, but you have to lead.”

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