The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it’s the perfect milieu for an artist to work in.
~ William Faulkner
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A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
~ Gertrude Stein
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If you control the choke points of social mobility, then you control the nation’s culture. And if you change the criteria for admission at places such as Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, then you change the nation’s social ideal.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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Es ist niemals ein Dokument der Kultur, ohne zugleich ein solches der Barbarei zu sein.
― Walter Benjamin
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
― Ansel Adams
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It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academism.
~ Mark Rothko
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A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that she remakes it in his own image.
~ Joan Didion
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If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.
~ Che Guevara
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