#ola

The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#art #art world #calls #chinese #create

Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations. ↗

— Curt Weldon

#human #human rights #hussein #rights #saddam

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong. ↗

— Orson Welles

#good #isolated #should #something #wrong

Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation.” (p.232) ↗

— Torkom Saraydarian

#consciousness #creativity #manifestation #solar-angel #spirituality

People come out of prison and aren't treated like I've been treated. I didn't kill anybody. I didn't violate anybody's rights. My rights were violated. Nobody likes to be hated, but the whole world hated Mary Beth Whitehead. ↗

— Mary Beth Whitehead

#been #come #hated #i #kill

I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do! ↗

— Laura Wilkinson

#chip #chocolate #cookies #i #i love

That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone. ↗

— Jayson Williams

#isolated #know #like #me #polished

Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#bible #character #christian #communicate #god

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#genuine #go #ideals #indeed #my own

Coppola has problems getting financing, so why should I not have problems getting financing. ↗

— Alex Winter

#financing #getting #i #problems #should