Quote by Thom Yorke
I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is theyre trying to write about. They have music. – Thom Yorke

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The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future. – Thom Yorke

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Future
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One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom. – Thom Yorke

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Art
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Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably wont any by the time… hes my age. Thats kinda hard to deal with. – Thom Yorke

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Age
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Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they cant articulate. – Mos Def

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Art

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment. – Beverly Sills

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Art

A picture is worth a thousand words. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Art

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. – Winston Churchill

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Art

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Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. – Rumi

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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. – E. O. Wilson

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Society

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. – Emile M. Cioran

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My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son. – Conrad Veidt

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