Quote of the Day
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“My primary concern is visual form. The visual meaning may be discovered
afterwards – by those who look for it. Two meanings have been ascribed
to these American Flag paintings of mine. One position is: ‘He’s painted
a flag so you don’t have to think of it as a flag but only as a
painting’. The other is: ‘You are enabled by the way he has painted it
to see it as a flag and not as a painting.’ Actually both positions are implicit in the paintings, so you don’t have to choose.”
Three Flags, 1958 by Jasper Johns
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“The people of Salem have no
conscience. They drink up every word and action of the hearings as if
they were drinking human blood. They are raging wolves, and the
innocents have no protection. There is no sanity, no reason. Good
friends now watch each other with hooded, suspicious eyes. No one
speaks to each other for fear that they might offend someone and be
branded a witch. If you dislike your neighbor because once she refused
to give you a half-cup of sugar, then she must be a witch. If a
friend’s hog once got loose and trampled your property, that friend is a
wizard.”
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Graphic designers: the CIA is hiring.
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“Little Miho, you’re an angel, you’re a saint, you’re Mother Teresa, you’re Elvis. You’re God.”—Sin City
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Ask the questions that matter.
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“John F. Kennedy … murdered in Dallas by some hapless geek named Oswald who worked for either Castro, the mob, Jimmy Hoffa, the CIA, his dominatrix landlady or the odious, degenerate FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover. The list is long and crazy — maybe Marilyn Monroe’s
first husband fired those shots from the grassy knoll. Who knows? A
whole generation of American journalists is still embarrassed by their
failure to answer that question. JFK’s ghost will haunt the corridors of
power in America for as long as the grass is green and the rivers run
to the sea. Take my word for it, Bubba. I have heard his footsteps for
30 years and I still feel guilty about not being able to explain the
biggest news story of my lifetime to my son.”—Hunter S. Thompson
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and everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon.
“I don’t see it as a riddle. The album uses the sun and the moon as
symbols; the light and the dark; the good and the bad; the life force as
opposed to the death force. I think it’s a very simple statement saying
that all the good things life can offer are there for us to grasp, but
that the influence of some dark force in our natures prevents us from
seizing them. The song addresses the listener and says that if you, the
listener, are affected by that force, and if that force is a worry to
you, well I feel exactly the same too. The line ‘I’ll see you on the
dark side of the moon’ is me speaking to the listener, saying, ‘I know
you have these bad feelings and impulses because I do too, and one of the ways I can make direct contact with you is to share with you the fact that I feel bad sometimes.”—Roger Waters
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“Great art – or good art – is when you look at it, experience it and it
stays in your mind. I don’t think conceptual art and traditional art are
all that different. There’s boring conceptual art and there’s boring
traditional art. Great art is if you can’t stop thinking about it, then
it becomes a memory.”
For the Love of God (small diamond skull) Print by Damien Hirst
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“Unconditional Love Is Huge In This World”
“I Don’t Work To Collect Money.”
“Live Your Life By an Inner Scorecard”
“Hang Out with People Who are Better than You”
“You’ve Got to Keep Control of Your Time”
“It Takes Twenty Years To Build A Reputation And Five Minutes To Ruin It”
“Stick Within Your Circle of Competence”
“Predicting Rain Doesn’t Count. Building Arks Does”
“Nice People Come In All Colors”
“The More You Give Love Away, The More You Get”