“When a painter is working he is aware of the means which are available to him - these include his materials, the style he inherits, the conventions he must obey, his prescribed or freely chosen subject matter - as constituting both an opportunity and a restraint.” MeanMatterOpportunityChallengesSubjectsStyleMaterialsAvailableChosenPainterConventionsRestraintSubject Matter Book:Sense of Sight Source: Sense of Sight
“Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an essential abstract convention.” TwoSubjectsPaintingEssentialsLiftsAbstractConventionsCanvas Book:The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn Source: The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn
“There is a tendency under capitalism system to reduce everything to a kind of commodity fetish, and this order tends to promote extremely conventional and uniform expressions of gender and sexuality in order to promote certain products and lifestyle choices that are commercialized. This necessarily entails a capitulation to heteronormativity, or in the case of the new gay movement, a "homonormativity" that doesn't stray far from the heterosexual paradigm. Anyone who questions these normative values and conventions is subject to disapproval, hostility, or even violence.” KindCertainValuesOrderChoicesCasesViolenceSubjectsMovementExpressionProductsGayCapitalismGenderSexualityLifestyleTendenciesConventionsConventionalUniformsCommodityHostilityParadigmFetishDisapprovalCapitulationLifestyle ChoicesGender And Sexuality Author:Bruce LaBruce
“There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders.” MeanWarStatesUnitedUnited StatesSubjectsCrimeRepublicanSoldierCongressCommittedGravesConventionsPenaltiesDeath PenaltyCommandersBreachWar CrimesGenevaGeneva Convention Author:Noam Chomsky