“Intellectually, most people never wash. They never free their minds of the accumulated rubbish of centuries.” Quote by Louis Dudek
“Imagination should be integrated with life, not turned into a separate activity, art, that monopolizes one's whole existence.” ShouldArtWholeImaginationExistenceActivityIntegrated Author:Louis Dudek
“The twentieth century had a wonderful capacity for seeing nothing as the sum of everything.” WonderfulSeeingCenturyCapacityTwentieth Century Author:Louis Dudek
“I think in retrospect that all those 'alternative'modes of living were little more than exercises in arrested development.” ThinkingLittlesDevelopmentExerciseAlternativesArrestedRetrospect Author:Will Self
“When George VI - displaying a flair for timing that was utterly absent in his lifetime - upped and died, the way was clear for her to inhabit her logical position as the eminence cerise, the bolster behind the throne.” BehindsThrones Author:Will Self
“There can be no more thrilling idea of intimacy that connecting with someone through the agency of the written word. Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality. The reader I seek is a tautology, for he/she is simply exactly the person who wants to read what I have written...” WantPersonsIdeasAgeRaceClassWrittenIdentityReaderPagesGenderNakedIntimacyAgencyConnectingThrillingNationalityWritten WordTautology Author:Will Self
“In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.” PossibilityBrotherSavingSisterTibetBrother Sister Author:Richard Gere
“Wealth is a form of power in our society. With great power comes great responsibility. If you have too much wealth, ipso facto, you have too much power - therefore you have too much responsibility - and you're a kind of dictator.” IfsKindFormWealthResponsibilityToo MuchOur SocietyDictatorGreat PowerGreat ResponsibilityToo Much Power Author:Will Self
“I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.” ArtTelevisionArchitectureRestaurantsCakeApologyJaneConceptual Art Author:Will Self