anti:freeze

Almost daily we are confronted by sensational pseudo-problems luridly and melodramatically treated which, of course, distract one and all from the really vital questions facing us at this time. How many children have been driven more or less directly into destruction by an outraged older generation and its outrageous laws? - Alexander Trocchi

We intend to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and fearlessness. - Manifesto of Futurism

In so far as the meaning of words becomes clear in the fulfillment of an expectation, in the satisfaction of a wish, in the carrying out of an order, etc., it already shows itself when we put the expectation into language. It is therefore completely determined in the grammar, in what could be foreseen and spoken of already before the occurrence of the event. - Wittgenstein

No, painting is not made to decorate apartments. It is an instrument for offensive and defensive war against the enemy. - Pablo Picasso

And what is an authentic madman?

It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.

So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses.

For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths. - Antonin Artaud

The more reality or being each thing has, the more attributes belong to it. - Spinoza

The most important tool the artist fashions through constant practice is faith in his ability to produce miracles when they are needed. Pictures must be miraculous: the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended. He is an outsider. The picture must be for him, as for anyone experiencing it later, a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an entirely familiar need. - Mark Rothko

I am for an art that does not sit on its ass in a museum. - Claes Oldenberg

If it seems absurd to talk about revolution, this is because organised revolutionary movements have long since disappeared from the modern countries where the possibilities of a decisive transformation of society are concentrated. But everything else is even more absurd, since it is limited to what exists and to the various ways of putting up with it. - Situationist International

The crowd always wants to grow. There are no natural boundaries to its growth. Where such boundaries have been artificially created - e.g. in all institutions which are used for the preservation of closed crowds - an eruption of the crowd is always possible and will, in fact, happen from time to time. There are no institutions which can be absolutely relied on to prevent the growth of the crowd once and for all. -Elias Canetti

When do we understand a sentence? - When we've uttered the whole of it? Or while uttering it? -Wittgenstein

We are bored in the town. There is no longer any temple of the sun. The dadaists wanted to see a monkey-wrench between the legs of the girls walking by and the surrealists a crystal bowl. So much for all that. We can read every type of promise into every type of face, concluding phase of morphology. The poetry of commercial advertising has lasted twenty years. We are bored in the town; you really do have to be pretty bored to be still looking for mystery on the hoardings and in the streets ..." - Gilles Ivain

Total object, complete with missing parts, instead of partial object. Question of degree. - Samuel Beckett