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“Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the…”

— Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“You used to be able to tell a person's nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the footwear. Globalization ended that.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive;”

— Susanne Langer, Philosophy in a New Key

“Alcohol's enhancement of direct face-to-face dialogue is precisely what is needed by today's technologically agile generation, magically interconnected yet strangely isolated by social media. Clumsy hardcore sexting has sadly supplanted simple hanging out over a beer at a buzzing dive. By underminin…”

— Camille Paglia, Time.com

“Skateboarding is not a hobby. And it's not a sport. Skateboarding is a way of learning how to redefine the world around you. It's a way of getting out of house, connecting with other people, and looking at the world through different sets of eyes.”

— Ian Mackaye, Library of Congress

“Glamour isn't beauty or luxury; those are only specific manifestations for specific audiences. Glamour is an imaginative process that creates a specific, emotional response: a sharp mixture of projection, longing, admiration, and aspiration. It evokes an audience's hopes and dreams and makes them se…”

— Virginia Postrel, theatlantic.com

“A man should look as if he has bought his clothes with intelligence, put them on with care and then forgotten all about them.”

— Edwin Hardy Amies, ABC of Men's Fashion

“I dance after you, I follow wherever your traces linger. Where are you? Give me your hand! Or only one finger.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“What you want to achieve strategically and structurally with companies, you need to support with workplace design.”

— Anat Lechner, ideasneversleep.is

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or…”

— Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice

“One of the basic and difficult lessons every artist must learn is that even the failed pieces are essential.”

— David Bayles, Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils

“Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“In fact, if artmaking did not tell you (the maker) so enormously much about yourself, then making art that matters to you would be impossible. To all viewers but yourself, what matters is the product: the finished artwork. To you, and you alone, what matters is the process: the experience of shaping…”

— David Bayles, Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils

“The most profound choice in life is to either accept things as they exist or to accept the responsibility for changing them.”

— Don Koberg, The Universal Traveler

“Making art can feel dangerous and revealing. Making art is dangerous and revealing. Making art precipitates self-doubt, stirring deep waters that lay between what you know you should be, and what you fear you might be.”

— David Bayles, Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils

“PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT”

— Jenny Holzer, Stuart Collection UC San Diego

“Your everafter is all I'm after.”

— Steven Powers, A Love Letter for You

“WHEN SOMEONE BEATS YOU WITH A FLASHLIGHT YOU MAKE LIGHT SHINE IN ALL DIRECTIONS”

— Jenny Holzer, Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania

“Theory is all about the question 'why?' The process of becoming a designer is focused largely on 'how': how to use software, how to solve problems, how to organize information, how to get clients, how to work with printers, and so on. With so much to do, stopping to think about why we pursue these e…”

— Helen Armstrong, Graphic Design Theory: Readings from the Field

“I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.”

— Jean Cocteau, Discours du Grand Sommeil