Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. - Goethe
A screaming song is good to know in case you need to scream. - Ruth Krauss
Illustration by Maurice Sendak
“Our attention spans are now thought to be less than that of a goldfish - eight seconds.” - Sandi Mann
Illustration by Ture Ekroos
“Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form.” - Jean Luc Godard
Artwork by Marina González Eme
“A fact is an epiphany of God.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Photo by Nicole Ottawa.
“Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.” - Mark Twain
Illustration by Juan Carlos Paz
“Documentary films are exceptionally good at communicating new knowledge about the world, and since tech giants and algorithms are really defining our everyday lives, it is absolutely crucial that our festival deals with and questions these great scientific and technological advances.” - Tine Fischer, CPH:DOX Film Festival
Source: https://realscreen.com/2021/03/26/cphdox-21-unveils-science-program-of-docs-and-debates/
“The ratio of CEO pay to average worker pay was 25:1 in 1960. Today it’s 320:1.” - Lynn Forester de Rothschild, Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/15/business/lynn-forester-de-rothschild-corner-office.html
Illustration by John Holcroft
“We have a memory cut in pieces. And I write trying to recover our real memory, the memory of humankind. But the human rainbow had been mutilated by machismo, racism, militarism and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our greatness, our possible greatness, our possible beauty.” - Eduardo Galeano
Words and images of others I find idiocyncratic, intriguing and inspirational.
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