"The activities of these parasites and degenerates gave rise to Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Pointillism, Constructivism, Orphism, Surrealism, Dada, and also Impossibleism, Supersurrealism, Dynamic Double-Dog Realism, Ishkabibbleism, and Mama, which is like Dada only nicer."

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Source : Daniel Pinkwater (2012). “Bushman Lives!”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Daniel Pinkwater

#Dog Quotes #Degenerates Quotes #Mama Quotes

“Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize.”
“The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.”
“For all the textbook reasons - any individual's reading of a photograph is preceded by the evidential authority of the medium. You have the literalness of a glass on a table - and at the same time of that evidential authority that you can't get around, there is the possibility of universalizing the subject - of getting the whole world into the picture.”

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“Agreement is brought about by changing people's minds - other people's.”
“People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.”
“In times of crisis, it is of utmost importance to keep one's head.”
“Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.”
“So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?”

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