Quotes
Authors
Yves Klein

"The immaterial told me that I was indeed an occidental, a right-thinking Christian who believes in the 'Resurrection of the flesh'. A whole phenomenology then appeared, but a phenomenology without ideas, or rather without any of the systems of official conventions. What appeared was distinct from form and became Immediacy. 'The mark of the immediate' - that was what I needed."

Source : "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962, Selected Writings". ed. J & J, the Tate Gallery, London 1974, p.53, 1960.

Yves Klein

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“As you go through life, you learn many lessons. Unfortunately these lessons only apply to the specific instances in which you learned them. Therefore you can expect to make horrible mistakes no matter how long you live.”

Source : Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”
“Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn. It will be ill for him if he proceeds no farther; if his emotions are but excited to roll back on his heart, and to be fostered in luxurious quiet. But unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble.”

Source : Thomas Noon Talfourd (1848). “Critical and Miscellaneous Writings”, p.5
“There is simply no substitute for forceful American leadership. Sometimes the best way to get allies is to be willing to forge ahead alone.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jeffree Star from Apr 05, 2011
“Focus all your attention and energy on the achievement of the objectives you are involved with right now.”
“This is the way I look when I'm sober. It's enough to make a person drink, don't you say?”
“You're short on ears and long on mouth.”
“Would all, who cherish such wild wishes, but look around them, they would oftenest find their sphere of duty, of prosperity, and happiness, within those precincts, and in that station where Providence itself has cast their lot. Happy they who read the riddle without a weary world-search, or a lifetime spent in vain!”
“You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry.”

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