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PhotoStatic Magazine Nº37 P R O D U C T I O N ,
“We savor power not when we move mountains and tell
rivers whither to flow, but when we can turn men into
objects, robots, puppets, automats, or veritable animals.
Power is the power to dehumanize.”
—Eric Hoffer
“Every destructive pleasure is creative pleasure.”
—Mikhail Bakunin
“I think the destructive element is too much neglected in
art.” —Piet Mondrian
“Art can be naught but violence, cruelty, and injustice.”
—Filippo Marinetti
“Art is inhuman. So we must be prepared to sacrifice all
humans to it!” —Herwarth Walden
“We spit on humanity.” —Tristan Tzara
“Total assault on the culture.” —Slogan of the 1960s
“War is the father of all things.” —Karl Haushofer
“The greater the horror gets, the louder the laughter
becomes.” —Hugo Ball
“We are the laughing morticians of the present.”
—Nathanael West
“We are all deep in a hell each moment of which is a
miracle.” —E.M. Cioran
“The twentieth century has given us a most simple
touchstone for reality: physical pain.” —Czeslaw Milosz
“We haunt a ruined century.” —John le Carre
“Never apologize, never explain.”—Benjamin Jowett
“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.”
—Aleister Crowley
“What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence.
The question is, what can you make people
believe that you have done?” —Sherlock Holmes
“The essence of propaganda consists in winning people
over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end
they succumb to it utterly and can never again escape
from it.” —Adolf Hitler
“[Fictional characters] are not creations, but puppets.
You can be as exterior to them, and live their life as
little, as the showman grasping from beneath and
working about in a Polichinelle. They are only shadows
of energy, not living beings.” —Wyndham Lewis
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