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"There are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a specific idea."

"The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream."

"If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future."

"I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted."

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Samuel Butler (novelist)

Literature

1835–1902

"The pursuit of truth is chimerical. That is why it is so hard to say what truth is. There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas."

"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery."

"I’m much more emotional than Mr. Spock. Spock rarely betrays what he is thinking or feeling. He’s fun to portray. But I hope I won’t explode one of these days."

"The choice is not between drugs and no drugs, but between illegal drugs and legal drugs. Until the 1920s drugs were legal, why not now? Lots of people are on drugs anyway — it is called medication."

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🇺🇸William S. Burroughs

Literature

Beat Generation

1914–1997

"A paranoid man is a man who knows a little about what's going on."

"Being covered in white paint ,you demonstrate behaviour intended to create a public nuisance,which did in fact cause offence to members of the public ,and created a breach of the peace and public order."

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William Stanley Jevons

Economics

1835–1882

"In this work I have attempted to treat economy as a calculus of pleasure and pain, and have sketched out,almost irrespective of previous opinions, the form which the science,as it seems to me, must ultimately take."

"Life without provocation would be summed up in resignation, skepticism and mental asepsis."

"I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I’m a messenger."

"The 2nd of April at 9:45 a.m. Max Ernst had his first contact with the sensible world, when he came out of the egg which his mother had laid in an eagle's nest and which the bird had brooded for seven years."

"Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Yes? Well socialism is exactly the reverse."

"The good thing is that I have always had wonderful people around me. It's dangerous when you start earning a lot of money and you become famous when you are too young."

"In Memoriam. The Last Letters of John Philip Edwin Crookes by William Crookes"

"Beloved imagination, what I most like in you is your unsparing quality. There remains madness, 'the madness that one locks up', as it has aptly been described. That madness or another.."

"Atomic physics, was the worst thing that happened in the 20th century."

"The Futurists were the first painters, poets, and architects who exalted modern work with their art—"

"There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors."

"Paul Bowles, The Art of Fiction No. 67" interview by Jeffrey Bailey, in The Paris Review"

"For me the art world is like a huge river, which began somewhere in the past and keeps flowing towards the future."

"We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world."

"The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world."

"The film moves at what I consider to be the speed of art — which is slow. Cremaster 2 does what I think sculpture does: It moves slowly and requires that one move around it to understand it, and to visit it repeatedly."

"A photographer's best work is, alas, generally done for himself."

"original texts of Schwitter's 'Poemas' England 1946"

"When I blow up a balloon, I am breathing my soul into an object that becomes eternal."

"New York is a giant place and no matter how big you get, there's still going to be a ton of people who haven't heard of you."

"Sgt Pepper made me more famous but it did not change me as an artist."

"People say New York is a melting pot, but it's really not. It's this mosaic of all these different cultures that really don't understand each other very well."

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🇭🇷Alfred Freddy Krupa

Art

b. 1971

"Conversation with Alfred Freddy Krupa by Francesco Scagliola, Italian Cultural Institute in Santiago, 2017"

"In the west, we believe we are the most progressive and socially just, but a lot of that is just a hopeful illusion."

"Sergei Eisenstein Is Dead In Moscow; Obituary, New York Times, February 12, 1948"

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