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- All art is based on non-conformity.
- We tried to present the ordinary in an extraordinary manner. But that's the paradox because the only thing extraordinary about it was that it was…
- If you're going to be an artist, all life is your subject. And all your experience is part of your art. A youngster told me…
- I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do…
- Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all predictions.…
- I did take my camera along, as I felt there wouldn't be enough time to draw the things I wanted to do. I did some…
- So, I was offered this job to come down there but first it was suggested that I take a trip around the country in the…
- When a man returned from the field and we'd look at the work, we'd criticize each other very genuinely and never offensively. And we would…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide