#ike

The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can't be understood without understanding the system. It isn't what it looks like but what it is that is of basic importance. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

#aspect #basic #importance #like #looks

When you're doing a series like this, you're constantly looking for new ways to excite your audience. ↗

— Nicholas Lea

#constantly #doing #excite #like #looking

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. ↗

— Buddha

#burned #coal #else #gets #grasping

If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. ↗

— Timothy Leary

#another #doing #groove #like #move

My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#canadian #childhood #confront #corpse #like

It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel. ↗

— David Leavitt

#before #bumps #her #instinct #knots

Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close to you, what you are told, what you have read, all mixed together into this kind of soup which, like any good soup, at the end you cannot really distinguish the ingredients. ↗

— David Leavitt

#cannot #close #combination #distinguish #end

Like Afghanistan before it, Iraq is only one theater in a regional war. We were attacked by a network of terrorist organizations supported by several countries, of whom the most important were Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. ↗

— Michael Ledeen

#arabia #attacked #before #countries #important

I don't feel like I have anything to lose, so I don't really understand what I'm putting at risk. ↗

— Heath Ledger

#feel #i #like #lose #putting

The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really another band, so it's all a bit weird. ↗

— Alvin Lee

#another #band #bit #chances #having