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“I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them and I really liked having them around.”

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Cy Twombly

Cy Twombly was an American painter known for his unique style and abstract expressionist works. His paintings often feature spontaneous scribbles, graffiti, and text, blended with natural elements. Born on April 25, 1928, he passed away on July 5, 2011. more

“We live in a world of communication, everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just compare yourself with the people next door, you compare yourself to people all over the world and with what is being presented as the decent, proper and dignified life. It's the crime of humiliation.”

People World Next Doors Crime Information Communication Universal Compare Decent Comparison Humiliation Humiliated

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.”

Worst Conditions Average Bridges Always Believe Pillars

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.”

World Interest Justice Attention Rich Tools Pursue Dependency Corresponding

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“Human attention tends to be focused on the satisfactions relationships are hoped to bring, precisely because somehow they have not been truly satisfactory. And if they do satisfy, the price of this satisfaction has often been found to be unacceptable.”

Ifs Humans Found Attention Satisfaction Focused

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

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