"The more our daily life appears standardised, stereotyped, and subject to an accelerated reproduction of objects of consumption, the more art must be injected into it..." - #Deleuze
"The future can only be anticipated in the form of an absolute danger. It is that which breaks absolutely with constituted normality and can only be proclaimed, presented, as a sort of monstrosity." - #Derrida 'Of Grammatology'
"For just as it's not the wish to become famous but the habit of hard work that enables us to produce a great work, it's not the light heartedness of the present moment, but sober reflections on the past, that help us to safeguard the future." - #Proust
"Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end of an experience, to the point beyond which no human being can go. The further one dares to go, the more decent, the more personal, the more unique a life becomes."
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letter to Clara Rilke
"A delicate palette may be a great inconvenience both to a man and to his friends: But a delicate taste of wit or beauty must always be a desirable quality, because it is the source of all the finest and most innocent enjoyments of which human nature is susceptible." - #Hume
"Mass media functions to neutralize the lived, unique character of the world and replace it with a multiple universe of media which are homogenous, signifying each other and referring back and forth. In the extreme case, they become the content of the others." #Baudrillard