critics

I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece. ~~~Jim Dine

So I turned on the crowd-And I screamed "you and you"-"It could have been you"

Fluxus is an attitude. It is not a movement or a style.
Fluxus is intermedia. Fluxus creators like to see what happens when different media intersect. They use found and everyday objects, sounds, images, and texts to create new combinations of objects, sounds, images, and texts.
Fluxus works are simple. The art is small, the texts are short, and the performances are brief.>Fluxus is fun. Humor has always been an important element in Fluxus.

{for his birthday today]-Antonio Gaudi

{for his birthday today]-Antonio Gaudi Quotes--“Men are divided into two categories: men of words and men of action. The former talk, the latter act. I belong to the second group. I lack the means of expressing myself. I could not tell you about the concept of art. I need to give it a concrete form.”

 

“It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.”― Man Ray

 

spectator

Every spectator is a plotter, if he tries to explain a word (to know!) From his padded refuge of serpentine complications,

he allows his instincts to be manipulated. Whence the sorrows of conjugal life. To be plain: The amusement of redbellies in the mills of empty skulls.

frying pan into the fire

We feel free even when we escape for a moment - even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire. ~Eric Hoffer

DaDa's day

“I speak only of myself since I do not wish to convince, I have no right to drag others into my river, I oblige no one to follow me and everybody practices his art in his own way." --- Tristan Tzara "Dada Manifesto 1918”

Dada sees all life as an industrial chaos, as ridiculous as it is pointless…. .Dadaists see themselves reflected in the cynical eccentricity of the streets in our cultural centers… ..Cars race past a cathedral. The sound of car horns and the calls of street vendors selling new herrings, beautiful roses, hat boxes and goldfish, all vying for attention. Then in the midst of all this street clamour, a sermon can be heard, coming from a shop selling radios.

effects of folly

“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.” ― Herbert Spencer

"Peoples and living things struggle for survival. At first, species struggle with species; the as [people] gradually progress, there is a struggle between one social group and another. The weak invariably become the prey of the strong, the stupid invariably become subservient to the clever."-h.-Spencer

China, which owns an estimated $1.22 trillion in U.S. Treasuries, is the number-one investor among foreign governments, according to the February 2013 figures released by the U.S. Treasury. This amounts to over 21% of the U.S. debt held overseas and more than 7% of the United States’ total debt load.

in denial

“American Empire- it is an empire that lacks the drive to export its capital, its people and its culture to those backward regions which need them most urgently and which, if they are neglected, will breed the greatest threats to its security. It is an empire, in short, that dare not speak its name. It is an empire in denial.” ― Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made The Modern World

“If we go on to cast a look at the fate of world historical personalities... we shall find it to have been no happy one. They attained no calm enjoyment; their whole life was labor and trouble; their whole nature was nothing but their master passion. When their object is attained they fall off like empty hulls from the kernel. They die early, like Alexander; they are murdered, like Casear; transported to St. Helena, like Napoleon.” ― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of History