Quote by Lester Bangs
The first mistake of art is to assume that its serious. - Lester B

The first mistake of art is to assume that its serious. – Lester Bangs

Other quotes by Lester Bangs

Its much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics. – Lester Bangs

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Politics
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They wouldnt be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldnt be heroes if they werent miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again. – Lester Bangs

Category:
Heroes/Heroism
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As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before. – Lester Bangs

Category:
Society
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Art
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Art is born of humiliation. – W. H. Auden

Category:
Art

Lets talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included… something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. Its a Gigantic project. – Joseph Beuys

Category:
Art

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. – William Blake

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Art

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation. – Mason Cooley

Category:
Art

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One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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And I like the look on peoples faces when I say Im doing this movie called Pride and Prejudice and they kind of smile, and then I say Im in a movie called Doom and they kind of do a double take and try and put the two things together. And they never quite manage to. – Rosamund Pike

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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end. – Ramakrishna

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Fear