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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never. ↗

— Alphonse de Lamartine

#never #ones #passions #private #public

The Democrats filibustered something in the Senate when I was eight years old. I don't remember what it was on and I didn't honestly care when I was eight years old. I cared about the history and the Senate rules. ↗

— Jonathan Krohn

#care #cared #democrats #eight #history

He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits. ↗

— Jack Kroll

#boundaries #changes #creates #gifts #inexplicable

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#fact #greater #in fact #make #modesty

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#america #copy #life #poetry #prose

There is no reason to think a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens cannot change the world; Indeed, that's the only thing that ever has. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#justice #change

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

#buys #filmmaker #freedom #himself #novelist

There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#life #nobler #nothing #risking #than

I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#certain #certain kinds #go #i #installation

I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#art #because #categories #crazy #does