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"Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it."
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"I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind."
"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."
"A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect."
"Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets."
"No one will teach you what you ought to know. You must search the truth for yourself."
"Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his."
"My quest and passionate curiosity are the basis for my love for scientific adventure."
"Never assume you know it all. Ask questions."
"A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect."
"No one can do the learning for you."
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"Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wearing blue jeans and sneakers. Today, it's the dream of probably half the people in the country."
"Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year."
"In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork."
"In Modernism, reality used to validate media. In Postmodernism, the media validate reality. If you don't believe this, just think how many times you've described some real event as being 'just like a movie.'"
"If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet."
"Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis."
"Cubism is still the most important art movement for the same reason that John D. is still the most important Rockefeller."
"Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well."
"The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments."
"I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about."
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