#liz

In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World War I changed the life of words and images in art, radically and forever. It brought our culture into the age of mass-produced, industrialized death. This, at first, was indescribable. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#industrialization #language #wwi #age

Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus. ↗

— Thomas Mellon

#been #civilization #cultivated #extract #ingrained

The notions of hybridity, metissage, cosmopolitanism have been deployed and reworked in order to capture the polycentric and polysemic aspects of these new configurations. ↗

— Okwui Enwezor

#creolization #hybridity #visual-culture #art

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#freedom #lost #never #realize #really

I don't play a lot of tournaments, but if I don't win a tournament in a year, people are like, 'What in the world is going on?' People don't realize how hard it is to win tournaments. You're not going to go out and play 10 tournaments and win one of them. Your odds aren't that good. ↗

— Chris Moneymaker

#going #good #hard #how #i

In the area of macroeconomic policies, I think we'll see more centralization, like in the budgetary sphere. ↗

— Mario Monti

#budgetary #centralization #economic policies #i #i think