Leonard Shlain Quotes
Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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There's no mystery any more. So my instinct is to show very little, because there's much too much information about everyone, everywhere right now. Reality TV is an example of that.
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If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.
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Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
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The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.
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Fantasy is like an idealized reality, and the core of fantasy is the one person can make a difference.
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I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.
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It's hard to do a reality show when there's so much crying and drama.
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Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.
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That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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It's hard to strike that balance: to tell a kid that life isn't fair, but also recognize and enforce in them the reality that their choices matter.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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I've never claimed that this is investment art. When we first started out, all the art colleges and universities across the country would sort of badmouth what we were doing. It's funny that a lot of them now are sending us letters saying, 'We may not totally agree with the way you paint, but we appreciate what you're doing, because you're sending literally thousands of people into art colleges.
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Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful
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If you're androgynous, that's what you look like.
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I would be horrified to watch whatever I was doing on 'Party Of Five.' I'm sure I'm bad on it.
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No Child Left Behind widens the gap between the races more than any piece of educational legislation I've seen in 40 years. It denies inner-city kids the critical-thinking skills to interrogate reality.
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Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.
