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Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art. ↗

— Adolf Loos

#art #arts #belongs #common #does

I judge people on how they smell, not how they look. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#i #judge #look #people #smell

I only do what my gut tells me to. I think it's smart to listen to other people's advice, but at the end of the day, you're the only one who can tell you what's right for you. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#day #end #end of the day #gut #i

Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary. ↗

— David Sylvian

#buddhism #discipline #necessary #where #zen

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#house #master #never #tools #will

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#any #black #circles #condemned #destructive

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#asking #because #black #dismiss #dyke

But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#black #bored #each #get #hand

The best way to detoxify is to stop putting toxic things into the body and depend upon it's own mechanisms. ↗

— Andrew Weil

#best way #body #depend #into #mechanisms

My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#attention #blots #books #covered #draws