Villa R , 1919
Paul Klee (1879–1940)
#art #quote #painting #arts #fine arts
#luizsantosarts

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
-- Oscar Wilde

"Some factual information for you. Have you any idea how much damage that bulldozer would suffer if I just let it roll straight over you?"
"How much?" said Arthur.
"None at all," said Mr. Prosser.

Here is a lovely #quote by Frida Kahlo.

"I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you."

“I don’t believe in putting labels on music. It’s just music — it’s either good or it’s not." Bill Evans
#jazz #art #quote #photo
#luizsantosarts

The State is said by some to be a "necessary evil"; it must be made unnecessary.
-- Benjamin Tucker

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words - Elliott Erwitt
#photography #quote

"Maybe somebody here tipped off the Galactic Police," said Trillian. "Everyone saw you come in."
"You mean they want to arrest me over the phone?" said Zaphod. "Could be. I'm a pretty dangerous dude when I'm cornered."
"Yeah," said the voice from under the table, "you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel."

“Our function is to contribute in a positive way to the world in which we live.” Data- The Offispring, Stardate: 43657.0 #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #IDIC #Quote

If your object is to secure liberty, you must learn to do without authority and compulsion.
-- Alexander Berkman

'Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.'

- George Bernard Shaw; Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

#RandomQuote #quotes #quote #bot

I think the role of the revolutionary movement is still in workplace organising, but I also think, in community organisation.
-- Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

Moin! ️️️
Jeder Tag ist ein Geschenk. Der heutige ist aber blöd verpackt!
Für die Pflanzen ist der Regen zwar sehr gut, aber die geplante Gartenarbeit fällt nun ins Wasser.

“Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. Stop running away and you will be found.”

– Lao Tzu

Einen schönen Guten Morgen

Heute ein #Zitat aus dem Film "Stalker" von Andrei Tarkovsky aus dem Jahr 1979, einem meiner all-time-favorites.

"Once, the future was only a continuation of the present. All its changes loomed somewhere beyond the horizon. But now the future's a part of the present."

Als ich den Film vor 45 Jahren zum ersten Mal sah, hätte ich dem Satz nicht zugestimmt. Heute, als "älterer" Mann schon ...

In Relativity, Matter tells Space how to curve, and Space tells Matter how to move.
The Heart of Gold told space to get knotted, and parked itself neatly within the inner steel perimeter of the Argabuthon Chamber of Law.

I am unique. My flesh is not their flesh, my mind is not their mind.
-- Max Stirner

"The insurance business is completely screwy now. You know they've reintroduced the death penalty for insurance company directors?"
"Really?" said Arthur. "No, I didn't. For what offense?"
Trillian frowned.
"What do you mean, offense?"
"I see."

Proletarians of the world, look into the depths of your own beings, seek out the truth and realise it yourselves: you will find it nowhere else.
-- Peter Arshinov