“Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.”
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Source: Beastly
“Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.”
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
“Everything is a symbol of a symbol, and a symbol of what? Of mind.”
Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881) Swiss philosopher and poet
30 December 1850
Journal Intime (1882), Journal entries
Context: Everything which is, is thought, but not conscious and individual thought. The human intelligence is but the consciousness of being. It is what I have formulated before: Everything is a symbol of a symbol, and a symbol of what? of mind.
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), I Prolegomena and General Introduction to the Book on Painting
“All that remains of that minute is time in all its purity, bone-white time.”
Marguerite Duras book The Ravishing of Lol Stein
Source: The Ravishing of Lol Stein
Theo van Doesburg (1883–1931) Dutch architect, painter, draughtsman and writer
Quote in Van Doesburg's text 'Towards white painting', Paris, December 1929, in 'Art Concret' April 1930; as quoted in Theo van Doesburg, Joost Baljeu, Studio Vista, London 1974, p. 183
1926 – 1931
“Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and had better come first. Purity means singleness. God is one.”
Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) poet, mountaineer, occultist
Source: Magick Book IV : Liber ABA, Part III : Magick in Theory and Practice (1929), Ch. 13 : Of the Banishings and of the Purifications.
Context: Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and had better come first. Purity means singleness. God is one. The Wand is not a Wand if it has something sticking to it which is not an essential part of itself. If you wish to invoke Venus, you do not succeed if there are traces of Saturn mixed up with it.
Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910) American abolitionist, social activist, and poet
"The Flag" in The Atlantic Monthly (April 1863).
“Everything I do is a symbol. Everything, has a meaning.”
Philippe Starck (1949) French architect and industrial designer
Starck (1986) in: New York Magazine Vol. 19, nr. 39 (Oct 6, 1986) p. 30 ( online http://books.google.nl/books?id=CecCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA30)