NO MORE BAD FUTURE

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It Is Our Duty to Practice Harsh Criticism (Rebecca West)

“We must lash down humanity to the world with thongs of wisdom. We must give her an unsurprisable mind. And that will never be done while affairs of art and learning are decided without passion, and individual dullnesses allowed to dim the brightness of the collective mind. We must weepingly leave the library if we are stupid, just as in the middle ages we left the home if we were lepers. If we can offer the mind of the world nothing else we can offer it our silence.”

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Brian Eno: Imaginary Landscapes (Documentary)

“I thought: I want to make music where you just wouldn’t know what was music and what wasn’t, where it was a plateau, and everything you could hear could be music, even things that weren’t on the record, you know. Like if there were sounds going on where you were listening, that could be part of it too. So a music that included rather than excluded.”

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Socrates wrote nothing. Jesus wrote nothing. Buddha wrote nothing.

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The Expansion of the Instant: Photography, Anxiety, Infinity (Kim Schoen)

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“My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the ‘depth’ that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend without a diving bell crammed with cabbalistic bullshit and intellectual metaphysics. This expressionistic anarchy has got to stop… A day will come when the artist will no longer be this bohemian, puffed-up anarchist but a healthy man working in clarity within a collectivist society.”

- George Grosz

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