“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”

— Mark Twain

“The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.”

— Mark Twain, Vince Lombardi, Vidal Sassoon, Donald Kendall (et al.)

“ […] this was a confrontation between two different legacies from the brothers Lumière: beteween film as art and film as agent of stupidity. […] ”

— Milan Kundera, Encounter

“Great art is horseshit,
buy tacos.”

— Charles Bukowski

“I was interested in how we engage the world. How do we use our skin as our eyes? If you read a cityscape or a landscape with just your mind, and not your body, it becomes like a picture or representation, not something you really engage with.”

— Olafur Eliasson

“For years I made abstract computer art, and people’s eyes would just gloss over. [...] When people look at an abstract painting they know how paint works [...] but with computer stuff, they just see a bunch of blinking lights.”

— Cory Arcangel

(from this fanzine interview)

“If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.”

— Mohandas Gandhi

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”

— Bill Cosby

“I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.”

— Blaise Pascal

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.

— Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut
or Yogi Berra