“Orientation in time, space, and status are the essentials of social existence, and the Balinese, although they make very strong spirits for ceremonial occasions, with a few startling exceptions resist alcohol, because if one drinks one loses one's orientation. Orientation is felt as a protection rather than as a strait jacket and its loss provokes extreme anxiety.” IfsSpiritStrongSocialFeltLosesLossSpaceExistenceDrinkEssentialsAnxietyExtremesProtectionAlcoholOccasionsExceptionVery StrongProvokingJacketsOrientationStrong SpiritBalinese Book:Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis Source: Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis
“Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.” TwoWisdomGovernmentSpiritPoliticsIndividualEconomyDemocracyExtremesInequalityLiberalismExcessConquestAristocracyDespotismDemocracies Have Author:Baron de Montesquieu
“For to be contemporary is not necessarily to be part of any movement, to be included in the official representations of national and international art. History shows that it may well be the opposite. It may be that it is the odd, the personal, the curious, the simply honest, that at this moment, when everyone looks to the extreme and flamboyant, constitutes the most interesting manifestation of the spirit of art.” WellsLooksMayArtMomentsShowsSpiritInterestingHonestMovementOppositesInternationalExtremesContemporaryCuriousOddManifestationOfficialsRepresentationMost InterestingArt HistoryFlamboyant Author:Patrick Swift