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    Banksy
    “Your mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid.
    You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation
    at high speed with total clarity.”
    ― Banksy, Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall
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    Banksy
    “The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.”
    ― Banksy, Wall and Piece
    tags: blind-obedience, crimes, obedience, rebellion, rule-breaking, rules
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    Banksy
    “A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.”
    ― Banksy, Wall and Piece
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    “Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
    ― Cesar A. Cruz
    tags: art, comfort, disturb
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    Frida Kahlo
    “At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
    ― Frida Kahlo
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    Frida Kahlo
    “I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.”
    ― Frida Kahlo
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    Frida Kahlo
    “I hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return.”
    ― Frida Kahlo
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    Frida Kahlo
    “I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.”
    ― Frida Kahlo
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    Frida Kahlo
    “I want to be inside your darkest everything”
    ― Frida Kahlo, The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
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    Susan Sontag
    “To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.”
    ― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
    tags: hit, sages, thinking, violence
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    Susan Sontag
    “All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”
    ― Susan Sontag
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    Susan Sontag
    “To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.”
    ― Susan Sontag, On Photography
    tags: cameras, photography
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    Susan Sontag
    “Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. ”
    ― Susan Sontag
    tags: art, art-criticism, criticism, critique, intelligence, interpretation, scholars, scholarship
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    Susan Sontag
    “Sanity is a cozy lie.”
    ― Susan Sontag
    tags: sanity
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    Susan Sontag
    “The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.”
    ― Susan Sontag
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    Susan Sontag
    “It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.”
    ― Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
    tags: heartbreak, love, love-hurts
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    Susan Sontag
    “Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past.”
    ― Susan Sontag, On Photography
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Everything you can imagine is real.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: art, chaos
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
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    Albert Einstein
    “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
    ― Albert Einstein, The World As I See It
    tags: 1931, art, mystery, philosophy, science
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    Thomas Merton
    “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
    ― Thomas Merton , No Man Is an Island
    tags: art
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    Karl Lagerfeld
    “What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”
    ― Karl Lagerfeld
    tags: art, capture, fashion-designer, forever, gone, impossible, memories, memory, moment, photo, photography, reproduce, shoot
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    Albert Einstein
    “It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: art, cybernetics, science
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    Pablo Picasso
    “What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: dance, music
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: corruption, dark-side, fighting, monsters, soul
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