#cia

... el arte que es simplemente malo ni siquiera es capaz de provocarnos repugnancia. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#repugnancia #art

But the truth is that the world has changed. And not participating in the conversation is a loud statement of its own to your customer base. You can’t control your branding message in any case because your customers are already talking about you online. The best you can do is to participate. ↗

— Vanessa Fox

#social-media #social-media-campaign #age

The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly. ↗

— Karl Radek

#against #because #bourgeois #determine #does

Com arte e ciência eu faço ménage à trois. ↗

— Filipe Russo

#ciência #ménage-à-trois #art

When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date. ↗

— Joshua Foer

#memory #art

Now, quite apart from the fact that, from the point of view of the Earther, socialism suffers the devastating liability of only exhibiting internal contradictions when you are trying to use it as an adjunct to your own stupidity (unlike capitalism, which again, from the point of view of the Earther, happily has them built in from the start), it is the case that because Free Enterprise got there first and set up the house rules, it will always stay at least one kick ahead of its rivals. ↗

— Iain M. Banks

#earthers #economics #free-enterprise #socialism #art

I appreciated art, long before I could produce it. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#art #artistic-expression #artists #art

The Special Operations Network was instigated to handle policing duties considered either too unusual or too specialized to be tackled by the regular force. There were thirty departments in all, starting at the more mundane Neighborly Disputes (SO-30) and going onto Literary Detectives (SO-27) and Art Crime (SO-24). Anything below SO-20 was restricted information, although it was common knowledge that the ChronoGuard was SO-12 and Antiterrorism SO-9. It is rumored that SO-1 was the department that polices the SpecOps themselves. Quite what the others do is anyone's guess. What is known is that the individual operatives themselves are mostly ex-military or ex-police and slightly unbalanced. 'If you want to be a SpecOp,' the saying goes, 'act kinda weird... ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#art #crime #detectives #literary #military

Ah, but is it not the mind that is the real grace of Homo sapiens? All the things to think about! All the things to read and appreciate! All the arts! All the things of the spirit! ↗

— Carol Emshwiller

#arts #humanity #read #art

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead. I mean this as a principle of aesthetic, not merely historical, criticism. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#intertextuality #art