Paul Thek quotes

“Inside the glittery, swanky cases-the 'modern art' materials that were all the rage at the time, Formica and glass and plastic-was something very unpleasant, very frightening, and looking absolutely real.”
-- Paul Thek

#Art Quotes #Real Quotes #Glasses Quotes

“I sometimes think that there is nothing but time, that what you see and what you feel is what time looks like at that moment.”
-- Paul Thek

Source : Paul Thek, Witte de With, centrum voor hedendaagse kunst, Neue Nationalgalerie (Germany), Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Musées de Marseille. MAC, galeries contemporaines (1995). “Paul Thek: the wonderful world that almost was”, Witte de with Center for Contemporary Art

#Thinking Quotes #Looks Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

“Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.”

“While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.”

“To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.”

“First birth is from your parents, but real birth, real life, begins when one accepts a bona fide spiritual master and renders service unto him. Then the path is open for going back to home, back to Godhead, to live eternally in full knowledge and full bliss and in association with the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, Lord Krishna.”

“A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.”

“Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.”

“I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.”

Source : "AS Byatt: woman of letters and ...science!". "All In The Mind" with Antonia Byatt, www.abc.net.au. August 21, 2010.

“Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.”

“Lovers lie around in itBroken glass is found in itGrassI like that stuff”