“If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding the truth. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken.”
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Marcel Duchamp
“I do not believe in art. I believe in artists.”
Maximilien Robespierre
“The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.”
Barbara Brown Taylor
“Jesus was not killed by atheism and anarchy. He was brought down by law and order allied with religion, which is always a deadly mix. Beware those who claim to know the mind of God and who are prepared to use force, if necessary, to make others conform. Beware those who cannot tell God’s will from their own.”
Margaret Atwood
“This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year’s threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath.”
Barbara Kruger
“What a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers. I make my work about this kind of sadly foolish farce. I’m waiting for all of them to sue me for copyright infringement.”
(speaking about Supreme Lifestyle Brand)
Mark Twain
“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
Charles Bukowski
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
Oscar Wilde
“The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
“I’ve never seen any life transformation that didn’t begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit.”
Marcel Duchamp
“What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It’s not what you see that is art; art is the gap.”
Mark Twain
“When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.”
Nick Cave
“Creating art is about growing the world and increasing its reach, and it has more to do with the act of creation itself than what is actually made.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”
Donald Trump (with Tony Schwartz)
“You can’t con people, at least not for long. You can create excitement, you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press, and you can throw in a little hyperbole. But if you don’t deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on.”
Erich Fromm
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.”
Winston Churchill
“Some people’s idea of free speech is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, it’s an outrage.”
Mae West
“A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to get tied up.”
Albert Camus, The Plague
“…But again and again, there comes a time in history when one who dares to say that 2+2=4 is punished with death. The school-teacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is one of knowing whether 2+2=4”
Brett Callero: Visual Artist 