#sm

I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine. ↗

I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal. ↗

— Roger Nash Baldwin

#am #class #communism #control #disarmament

The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention. ↗

— Roger Nash Baldwin

#deed #grandest #intention #smallest #than

Enthusiasm moves the world. ↗

— Arthur Balfour

#enthusiasm #moves #world

The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s. ↗

— Gavin Rossdale

#beatles #faces #great #kinks #small

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#abstract art #ambiguities #art #childhood #cubism

I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless. ↗

— Leonard Baskin

#artists #element #feel #i #i think

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#efficient #escape #mechanisms #most

We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic. ↗

— Gavin Rossdale

#cd #dreamed #enjoy #fantastic #first

I quit smoking well over twenty years ago. ↗