“ For twenty-seven years we futurists have rebelled against the branding of war as anti- aesthetic...accordingly we state war is beautiful because it establishes mans dominion over the subjugated machinery by means of gas-masks, terrifying megaphones, flame throwers, and small tanks. War is beautiful because it initiates the dreamt-of metallization of the human body. War is beautiful because it enriches a flowering meadow with the fiery orchids of machine guns. War is beautiful because it combines the gunfire, the cannonades, the cease-fire, the scents, and the stench of purification into a symphony. War is beautiful because it creates a new architecture, like that of the big tanks, the geometrical formation flights, the smoke spirals from burning villages, and many others....poets and artists of futurism! Remember these principals of an aesthetic of war so that your struggle for a new literature and a new graphic art...may be illuminated by them.”

- MARINETTI -

    " If there is a battle and I believe that there is, always has been, and that's what has made Van Goghs and Mahlers as well as "Dizzy" Gillespies and Charlie Parkers, then please be careful of your leaders. For there are many in your ranks who would rather be president of general motors than burn down the Shell oil station around the corner. But, since they can't have one, they take the other. These are the human rats of the centuries who have kept us where we are. This is Debcek coming back from Russia, a half man, afraid of psychic death. A man must finally learn that it is better to die with his balls slowly cut off than to live any other way. Foolish? No more foolish than the greatest miracle. But if you are caught in the trap always understand what it is that you're trading for exactly."

    -BUKOWSKI-
" A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal, than any other work of art."

-THOREAU -

 " A man leaving church, ... a woman getting out of the bath....the first with his soul full of hope."

- DUCHAMP -
" Wherever there are roses, there are thorns...but the roses' kiss tastes the sweetest."

-MJM-

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-GINSBERG-
" I would be glad to know which is worse, to be ravaged a hundred times by pirates, to have one buttock cut off, to run the gauntlet among the Bulgarians, to be whipped and hanged at an auto-da-fe, to be dissected, to be chained to an oar in a galley; and, in short, to experience all the miseries through which every one of us hath passed, or to remain here doing nothing?”

- VOLTAIRE -

 " Be indulgent when you compare us to those who were the perfection of order, we who look for adventure everywhere. We are not your enemies. We want to bring you vast and strange domains, where mystery in flower spreads out for those who would pluck it...Pity us who fight always at the boundaries of infinity and the future. Pity us our errors...pity us our sins."

- APPOLINAIRE -

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 “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.”

        - EINSTEIN -
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”

        - SAGAN -		 “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”

        - THOREAU -
“Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.”

-SOCRATES-

 “Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.”

        - DEWEY -
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

-BALDWIN-

 "There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it."

-CAMUS-

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-DIFRANCO-

 " The excellency of every art is in its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth."

-KEATS-

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 "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift."

-EINSTEIN-
"The truly creative mind in any field is a human creature born abnormally, inhumanely sensitive.
To them... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.
Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, their very breath is cut off...
They must create, must pour out creation.
By some strange, unknown, inward urgency they are not really alive unless they are creating."

-BUCK-

 "But if the concept of art becomes anthropological it is totalized and really does refer to human creativity, to human work and not simply the work of artists. Why anyway should the term art refer to the work of painters and sculptors? That is simply a restriction that never existed before."

-BEUYS-
"It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors."

-ANON-