Robert Altman (1925-2006, filmmaker)
"I'll give the same advice I give my children: never take advice from anybody." (AZQuotes.com)
J. G. Ballard (1930-2009, writer)
"If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asked what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or how Bach spent his weekends. At Eden-Olympia work is the ultimate play, and play the ultimate work." (Super-Cannes, 2000)
Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870, artist)
"It is really too ridiculous for a reasonably intelligent person to expose himself to this kind of administrative caprice." (Quoted in Frédéric Bazille and Early Impressionism by Marandel, Daulte, et al.)
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940, philosopher)
"The power of a text when it is read is different from the power it has when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command." (One Way Street, 1928)
Jay David Bolter (1951-now, media theorist)
"The openness of such networked devices reflect our growing desire to construct writing in a way that breaks down the traditional distinctions between the book and such larger forms as the encyclopedia and the library." (Writing Space, 2003)
Norbert Bolz (1953-now, media theorist)
"The books written by Paul Valéry, Walter Benjamin, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Marshall McLuhan, Gilles Deleuze, Douglas Hofstadter, and Niklas Luhmann can be understood as attempts to do justice tot he new media world at a level of technical depiction and what is more: these books are no longer books in the strict sense of the world, but mosaics consisting of quotations and fragments of thought." (Goodreads.com)
Régis Debray (1940-now, philosopher)
"We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on the stage wearing the mask of the preceding scene and we tend to lose the meaning of the play." (Révolution dans la révolution? 1967)
Amy Goodman (1957-now, journalist)
"We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media servicing a democratic society." (The Exception to the Rulers, 2004, co-author David Goodman)
Timothy Leary (1920-1996, psychologist)
"When you teach someone how to perform creatively (i.e. associate dead symbols in new combinations), you expand his potential for experiencing more widely and richly." (Changing My Mind, Among Others, 1982)
Lewis Mumford (1895-1990, sociologist)
"A community whose life is not irrigated by art and science, by religion and philosophy, day upon day, is a community that exists half alive." (Faith For Living, 1940)
