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There was an observable tendency in all of her actions. This was, with the best intentions in the world, to make a mockery of virtue, to pursue it with such a mindless intensity that everyone involved was made a fool of and virtue itself became ridiculous.

Flannery O’Connor, “The Comforts of Home,” 1960

#flannery o'connor #tendency #quote #action #lit #literature #the comforts of home #mockery #virtue #ethics #world #intent #intention #mindless #ridiculous #fool #mock

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She would have been a good woman ... if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.

Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” 1953

#flannery o'connor #quote #lit #literature #ethics #woman #good #virtue #vice #death #truth #identity #grace #divine #divine grace #christianity #redemption

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It’s almost unethical to be lecturing.

Eric Mazur in Molly Worthen, “Lecture Me, Really,” 2015

#eric mazur #molly worthen #lecture #ethics #teaching #education #quote #philosophy #physics

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People will be better people if they live behind glass.

Le Corbusier, “Architecture as Ethics,” c. 1940 (via johnson)

#le corbusier #architecture #people #ethics #building #glass #material #transparency #phenomenal transparency

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A critic’s methods, sense of ethics, and commitment will be assessed as much as their insight, choice of artist, or quality of published prose.

Gilda Williams, "On Art Writing," 2014

#gilda williams #quote #criticism #critic #art #sense #ethics #ethic #commitment #assessment #quality #artist #prose #publish #writing

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Whoever must be a creator in good and evil, verily, he must first be an annihilator and break values. Thus the highest evil belongs to the highest goodness: but this is creative.

Freidrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, 1883-5 (via reinert)

#friedrich nietzsche #creation #good #evil #annihilation #destruction #morality #preservation #value #ethics #philosophy

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There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.

Jorge Luis Borges, "On Infinity," c. 1960 (via quote)

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The gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life to poison the Earth with a plague of men, as once it was, but the gun shoots death, and purifies the Earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth ... and kill!

John Boorman, "Ethical Aphorism" from Zardoz, 1974

#john boorman #quote #zardoz #penis #evil #gun #good #seed #poison #earth #plague #men #death #brutal #kill #murder #ethics #aphorism #purify #pure

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There are always two sides to a coin. Society is usually fixated on only one side of the coin. For example, being shot is considered by society to be a bad thing and to be avoided at all costs. Sometimes it is of some interest to flip the coin and face the dragon head-on.

Chris Burden, "Interview with Valentina Sansone," 2008

#chris burden #quote #sociology #shot #shoot #coin #face #society #bad #good #ethics #art #interview #valentina sansone #performance art

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There is this idea that sculpture is static, or maybe even dead, but I feel absolutely contrary to that. I’m not a religious person – I’m an absolute materialist – and for me material is exciting and ultimately sublime. When I’m involved in making sculpture, I’m looking for a system of belief or ethics in the material. I want that material to have a dynamic, to push and move and grow.

Tony Cragg, "On Sculpture," 2008 (via artinfo)

#tony cragg #art #sculpture #quote #material #static #live #materialism #ethics

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Richard Jackson, Bad Dog at Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA), Newport Beach, CA, 2013 (via buildahome)

'A 28-foot-tall sculpture of a black Labrador relieving itself is currently installed on the side of the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) in Newport Beach, California. The installation, known simply as Bad Dog, is a new outdoor piece by artist Richard Jackson that is claiming its temporary territory throughout the run of the 74-year-old artist’s first retrospective exhibit titled Richard Jackson: Ain’t Painting a Pain. The sculpture of the giant naughty pup leaving its golden mark on the building is made of 52 digitally cut pieces of fiber glass and composite materials that were assembled on-site. Once the structure was intact, Jackson entered the sizable sculpture with a bucket of yellow paint to be splattered on the wall. Now, the mechanized sculpture squirts a stream of yellow paint on its own. It is one of Jackson’s many “painting machines” that excretes pigments in an unusually creative fashion.'

#dog #art #labrador #urine #disrespect #sculpture #black scale #semiotics #concrete #black #ethics #nature #painting #mechanization #machine

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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Victor Hugo, c. 1870 (via umich)

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In the beginning was the Word, which is to say, the signifier.

Jacques Lacan, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, 1959-60 (via proustitute; skibinskipedia)

#bible #jacques lacan #quote #psychoanalysis #ethics #philosophy #religion #signifier #sign