- Nov 07, 2020
Plague Quotes
On what haunts, and what humanity hopes to end.
Here "plague" shifts between metaphor and literal meaning - an artist describing hallucinations that won't leave them alone, and a broader hope to end actual disease and suffering on the planet.
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Please your eye and plague your heart.
- Extraordinarily
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.
- Better Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.
- All My Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Facebook and Twitter are like a horrible digital plague.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot afford the creeping paralysis that destroys the effective will of democracy - the paralysis carried by hate and rancor, between class and class, person and person, party and party, as plague is carried through the streets of a town.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
- Negative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020