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Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

“A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith was a renowned economist known for his research on economic cycles, market structures, and government policies. His works have had a profound impact on economic theory and policy practice. more

“Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you, it does so in silence, in your dreams, in your wordless moments. Good words enter you and become moods, become the quiet fabric of your being. Like music, like painting, literature too wants to transcend its primary condition and become something higher. Art wants to move into silence, into the emotional and spiritual conditions of the world. Statues become melodies, melodies become yearnings, yearnings become actions.”

“Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.”

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“If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will.”

Ifs Should Vision Power Ought Will Power Have Courage

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“Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.”

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“There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.”

Art Humanity Three Ought Tradition Realistic Visionaries

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“There is a great temptation with songs, melodies and lyrics to overcomplicate them but in fact, you find that the most enduring melodies are often the simplest.”

Facts Song Endure Temptation Melody Simplest

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“I grew up in Ireland, and the ocean was never more than an arm's length away. As lovely as the mountains are and as friendly as the people of Utah are, I feel a bit landlocked here.”

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“Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language, when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together on the spot-that's what I love most. That's where character lives.”

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Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

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