Quotes

[Faust]

The most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom [is] the solid unmoving cattle of the majority.

- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

[550BC]

“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”

- Rumi

[mrbeuys]

"WHEN YOU MIX A PHAROAH'S HAT, SKATEBOARDES SHORTS, A JULIET GRECO TURTLENECK AND A JOEY RAMONE SHOE IN A MONOTONE SILHOUETTE, YOU'RE THINKING OF YOURSELF ON A LARGER STAGE THAN JUST THE IMMEDIATE PRESENT."

- Guess who

[Shucks]

"monotone"? surely it must be 'monochrome'.

[mrbeuys]

Just copy / pasted so not sure if this is wrong... let's leave it as is :)

Also:

"FASHION IS ABOUT EVENTUALLY BEING NAKED." - Vivenne Westwood

[Shucks]

sure ok :)

as for the westwood quote - she never really impressed me with her intellect...

[interest1]

[Faust]

"There's never been much love between literature and the marketplace. The consumer economy loves a product that sells at a premium, wears out quickly or is susceptible to regular improvement, and offers with each improvement some marginal gain in uselessness. To an economy like this, news that stays news is not merely an inferior product; it's an antithetical product. A classic work of literature is inexpensive, infinitely reusable, and, wost of all, unimprovable."

Jonathan Franzen, "Why Bother?"

[Shucks]

^ sad but true... though it might be added for clarity that with the advent of post-modern marketing, the actual product itself doesn't even need to be improved upon or worn out - it just needs to be made to feel inferior or outdated. (cf. the fear of 'rehashes' as has been hashed out recently in the rick owens s/s collection thread...)

[wildinthewoods]

Clothes have, they say, more important offices than merely to keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us. There is much evidence to support the view that it is the clothes that wear us and not we them. We may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking. Clothes are but a symbol of something hid deep beneath.

Virginia Woolf

Found on the lovely Amy Revier's website

[interest1]

Never cut what you can untie.

– Robert Frost

[Faust]

"America is the only culture that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between." - Oscar Wilde

[Faust]

"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made." - Oscar Wilde

[Monoral]

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."

Winston Churchill

[profondo nero]

These days, people get into music to be part of the establishment.
The most fuck-you guy around is Justin Bieber.
What does that mean? There’s no counter culture – only over-the-counter culture.

- Don Letts