“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity” — George Orwell ’Politics and the English Language’

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“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity” - Charles Mingus

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“If there are no innocents in any struggle, then let us give up the cause of humanity.” — Wole Soyinka

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“What about the scene in the studio where an unemployed seamstress poses as a goddess in front of a painter who works on an empty stomach. Talk about prostitution in art! Think how many artists produce works of bad taste against their will. Works that are too sweet or too pious so that those who have been stealing all day can rest their eyes on a nicely painted arse, or, after stuffing themselves, enrich their lives with a pretty still-life or a nymph.” — František Kupka, 1902

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