John

“What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants.”
― Robert Hughes, The Shock of the New

“Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope.”
― Theodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends: Politics and Transcendence in Post-Industrial Society

“Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
- Edward De Bono”
― Edward De Bono

“I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me
I believe in my dance-- And my destiny”
― Sam Shepard