“Don’t look at things — look in between things.” John Baldessari, photographer, painter, filmmaker, sculptor, 1931-2020
via In Memory: “Don’t look at things — look in between things.” — Art of Quotation
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“there’s no telling where this mad man might drag us.” — Art of Quotation
[It’s] one thing when he’s baiting Democrats, quite another when he’s thumbing his nose at international law. On Twitter he threatened to bomb important cultural sites in Iran and later explained to reporters aboard Air Force One that if it and other countries were going to engage in terrorism and torture, hell, why should we […]
via “there’s no telling where this mad man might drag us.” — Art of Quotation
”don’t regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression.” — Art of Quotation
Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don’t regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve […]
“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.” — Art of Quotation
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. Sigmund Freud, author
“Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.” — Art of Quotation
“Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.” John Baldessari, 1931-2020
via “Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.” — Art of Quotation
“We live in a hell of opinions.“ — Art of Quotation
We live in a hell of opinions. Frank Bidart, poet, Pulitzer Prize for poetry
“These days the buck stops nowhere / No one takes the blame / But evil is still evil / In anybody’s name” — Art of Quotation
These days the buck stops nowhere No one takes the blame But evil is still evil In anybody’s name Don Henley, songwriter, quote from If Dirt Were Dollars Walkin’ like a millionaire Smilin’ like a king He leaned his shopping cart against the wall He said, “I been a lot of places And I seen […]
“Everything in the world began with a yes.” — Art of Quotation
Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. Clarice Lispector, writer
via “Everything in the world began with a yes.” — Art of Quotation
“Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.” — Art of Quotation
Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived. Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian, diplomat, politician, historian, philosopher, writer, playwright and poet
“When a poem is really finished, you can’t change anything. You can’t move words around. You can’t… “ — Art of Quotation
When a poem is really finished, you can’t change anything. You can’t move words around. You can’t say, ‘In other words, you mean.’ No, that’s not it. There are no other words in which you mean it. This is it. W. S. Merwin, poet
