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One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on some level, functional and in some cases, remarkably resilient. This is kind of amazing.

Geoffrey West

Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.

Moshe Safdie

You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.

Edward Coke

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.

Harold Rosenberg

Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.

Jerry Saltz

Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.

Joe Simon

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Robert Quillen

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

Roger Stone

The ones who stay unnoticed often see the most. They live out other people's lives, since their own are so unremarkable...

After School Nightmare, Volume 8

Every man has two counties--his own and America.

America as a Civilization

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.

The Art of Literature

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

William Hazlitt

Sun of himself. All things are his moons.

Hold Your Own

We experience the gods and the wisdom of the universe all in our own way

Hexe

London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour.

An Italian Affair

Heroes must see to their own fame. No one else will.

Julian

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

A Room of One's Own

Jimmy was in a league of his own when it came to puerile, half-pissed badinage.

Rounder's People

The heart knows nothing except its own mind.

The Realm of Possibility

Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own?

Revolutionary Road

How could a man know the truth of his own soul?

Scarlett