Famous quotes containing the words local, air and/or quality:
“There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artists relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artists concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“I have every characteristic of a night persona distaste for bosses, a hatred of the expected, an obsession with gaining an ultimately nonexistent freedomevery quality except one. I cant stay awake after a while. I fall asleep.”
—John Bowers (b. 1928)