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Quote o’ the Month – March….2013

“The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.”
~John Cage; american composer, music theorist and author.




Quote o’ the Month – February….2013

“Art is a revolt against fate”
~ Andre Malraux; french essayist, novelist and art critic.




Quote o’ the Month – January….2013

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.”
~Albert Einstein; german theoretical physicist and philosopher.




Quote of the Month; December – 2012

“Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.”
~Emma Goldman; russian anarchist, activist and author.




Quote of the Month; November – 2012

“It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.”
~Nikolai Gogol; russo-ukranian author and playwright.




Quote of the Month; October – 2012.

“It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.”
~ Salvador Dali; spanish Surrealist painter and visual artist.




Quote of the Month; September – 2012.

“Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.”
~ James Joyce; irish author, poet and critic.




Quote of the Month; August – 2012.

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
~Aristotle; ancient greek philosopher and polymath.




Quote of the Month; July – 2012.

“i am awake only in what i love & desire to the point of terror — everything else is just shrouded furniture, quotidian anaesthesia, shit-for-brains, sub-reptilian ennui of totalitarian regimes, banal censorship & useless pain …”
~Hakim Bey (Peter Lamborn Wilson); american anarchist author and poet.




Quote of the Month; June – 2012.

“Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.”
~Abbie Hoffman; american author, political and social activist.