Wadada Leo Smith Quotes
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I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
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I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.
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Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.
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I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
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I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.
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The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.
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I think society, in general, is hard on women, period.
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The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
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When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with ethnic and sectarian divisions. When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.
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We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
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A large group of Iranians have doubts about last month's (June) disputed presidential election … something should be done about the situation., on the 2009 presidential election.
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The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
