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• A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things. — Manolo Blahnik
• In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self. — Milton Glaser
• Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can… — Raoul Vaneigem
• If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and… — Michael Leunig
• You should know what makes one photo brilliant and another. Why one illustration is instructive and another is banal. Why… — Jason Calacanis
• They just talk drivel. Whoever is winning is great, whoever isn't, isn't. It's banal. And also semi-literate at times ...… — Eamon Dunphy
• Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is… — Lewis Thomas
• I believe that photography loves banal objects, and I love the life of objects. — Josef Sudek
• Photography is the easiest thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland,… — John Szarkowski
• All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and… — Walter Benjamin
• In Japan, I took part in a tea ceremony. You go into a small room, tea is served, and that's… — Okakura Kakuzo
• How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean. — David Foster

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