Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
Interpretation
Original art challenges norms and inspires new perspectives.
This quote highlights the essence of original thought and artistic expression as inherently rebellious and questioning. It suggests that true creativity often involves breaking away from established conventions and norms, paving the way for new ideas and perspectives that challenge the status quo.
In practice
This quote can inspire students in an art class to embrace their unique vision and challenge conventional techniques.
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
faith without doubt is addiction
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.
I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable β how we decide what is valuable.
If I would be born in New Zealand, maybe, I would never write the Polish Requiem or pieces which were connected with the history of war. But this was my childhood. War was the main subject, and also in our family.
Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.
I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture, and the people.
Music comes from the musician, not the instrument.
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