“I've always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn't been put into words and that the moment it's put into words it becomes exaggerated. Because the moment it's put into words there's an abuse, an excess in the expression of the idea that makes it false.” ThinkingIdeasMomentsTruthExpressionAbuseCollectivesExcessSuspiciousExaggerated Author:Eugene Ionesco
“The living expression of the nation is the collective consciousness in motion of the entire people.” PeopleNationsConsciousnessExpressionCollectivesCollective Consciousness Author:Frantz Fanon
“Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each performer, seemingly going his own melodic way, played in harmony, dissonance, or counterpoint with the improvisations of his colleagues. Quite unlike ragtime, which was written down in many cases by its composers and could be repeated note for note (if not expression for expression) by others, jazz was a performer's not a composer's art.” IfsWayArtCasesWrittenBloodExpressionHarmonyJazzNotesBonesClassicCollectivesPerformersComposerColleaguesNew OrleansImprovisationDissonanceRagtime Author:Russell Lynes
“Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression "individual rights"? is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today's intellectual chaos). But the expression "collective rights"? is a contradiction in terms.” MenUseTodayPurposeIndividualTermRightsExpressionIntellectualChaosContradictionCollectivesIndividual RightsClarificationRedundancy Book:Ayn Rand Reader Source: Ayn Rand Reader
“Politics is not what it pretends to be, the expression of a collective will. Politics breathes well only where this will is multiple, hesitant, confused, and obscure even to itself.” WellsExpressionBreatheConfusedCollectivesMultipleObscureHesitant Author:Michel Foucault
“My work has never been autobiographical. Although the subjects are driven on a personal perspective it's sort of elevated above me. I try to express something that is more a collective expression of crisis.” TryingSubjectsExpressionPerspectiveCrisisDrivenCollectives Author:Shirin Neshat