#great

One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#anywhere #art #carry #does #go

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#author #come #contemporary #currents #experience

You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#embrace #great #only #own #sense

Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one. ↗

— John C. Danforth

#begin #great #great nation #japan #like

I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are. ↗

— Susan Faludi

#culture #even #feel #great #great power

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space. ↗

— Philip Johnson

#contains #design #exalts #great #persons

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#enjoyment #equality #greatly #happiness #human

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#danger #debts #escaped #every #great

I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#always #attention #detail #effort #every

Such problems are not solved in one day but there is a great step toward peace and security in the region. ↗

— Paul Kagame

#great #great step #one day #peace #problems