"Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike."

“Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.”

“Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.”

Source : Ali Smith (2014). “How to be Both”, p.253, Penguin UK

“Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?”

Source : "The planet is now so vandalised that only total energy renewal can save us" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2008.

“And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.”

“[Bernard Leach] talked about painting, but we never talked about ceramics in that evening. But at the end of the evening he said to us, "Well," he said, "I've changed my mind, and if you want, you can come back a year from now and apprentice in the workshop."”

“Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.”

“Tomorrow you will belong to someone else," Finn said. "But tonight, you're with me”

“Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.”