Quotable

"These are days when no one should rely unduly on his 'competence.' Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed."  -Walter Benjamin

"Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century."  -Marshall McLuhan 

"All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography."  -Federico Fellini

"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."  -Andy Warhol

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist." -Oscar Wilde

"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."  -Albert Einstein

"You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realise that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all ... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing ... (I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life, as it did my mother's...)"   -Luis Buñuel, Spanish filmmaker


The following is an investigation into the failure of translation. I took a favorite quote from Aristotle, entered it in Google Translator, and systematically translated it into all available languages. In between each step, I translated it back into English before translating it again. It's sort of like a global game of telephone.(This was not my own brilliant idea; a fellow student did this for a performance project, and I decided to steal the technique. All art is theft, right?) I like the way it becomes complete nonsense, and then at the end it starts to make sense again.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

-Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

This is a sign of a well-educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

This is a sign of well-educated mind to be able to entertain the thought without accepting it.

This is a good sign of an educated mind to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Entertain an idea without the sign of a good education for the mind.

Sign in to entertain a good education if you want to leave a comment or a suggestion, an idea that is not the first sign of intelligence.

Log in to entertain a good education, if you want to leave a comment or suggestion, the idea that this is not the first sign of intelligence.

Hospitality and a good education to log in, if you have any comments or suggestions, do not give you the idea that the first sign of this tendency.

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Hospitality and good manners, you will need to log in. If you have any comments or suggestions, do not know the first sign of this development.

Welcome and good manners, you will need to log. If you have comments or suggestions, do not know the first sign of this development.

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Greetings and good will adopt. If you have comments or suggestions, evolution does not know sign in first.

Adopt good blessings. If you have comments or suggestions, evolution does not know the first sign.

Adopt good blessings. If you have comments or suggestions, do not know the first sign of growth.

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Good good reception. Our first very often I do not know.

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Good reception is good. We often do not know for the first time.

Good reception is good. We often do not know the first time.

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Good reception is good. Often they do not know the first time.

Good reception is fine. They do not thwart the first time.

A good response is fine. They do not obstruct the first time.

Response is to adjust. They do not obstruct the first time.

To set the answer. They do not prevent the first time.

For installation questions. They do not prevent the first time.

For installation questions. They do not stop at first.

For questions set. They do not stop at the beginning.

For questions set. Hey do not stop in the beginning.

Question put. Hey, do not start to stop.

Question put. Hey, you do not have to forbid.

Question asked. Hey, no need to ban.

Question. Hey, no need to ban.

Question. There is no need to deny.



This one is kind of funny. I promise that it is totally accurate.
 

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. -Albert Einstein

I have a special talent. I am only passionately curious.

I have a special talent. I am not only interested in love.

I have a special talent. I'm not only interested in love.

I have a special talent. I am interested not only in love.

I have a special talent. I just want to love.

I have a special talent. I just want love.

I have a special talent. I just want to caress.

I have a special talent. I just want to be stroked.

I have a special talent. I want to be stroked.

I have a special talent. I'd stroked.

I have a special talent. I was stroking.

I have a special talent. I stroked her.

I have a special talent. I stroked it.

I have a special talent. I stroked.

I have a special talent. I caress.

I have a special talent. I stroke.

There is a special talent. I stroke.

There is a special talent. I blow.

There is special talent. I'm beat.

There is a special talent. I beat the man.

There is a special talent. I beat him.

There is a special talent. I win.

There is a special talent. I have won.

There is a special gift. I have won.


One more. This is fun.
 

Hell is a place where nothing connects with anything. -T.S. Eliot

Hell is a place where nothing, nothing connects.

Hell is a place where nothing, nothing to connect.

Hell is a place where nothing, nothing to join.

Hell is a place where nothing is nothing to join.

Hell is a place where there is nothing that has nothing to join.

Hell is a place where there is nothing that he could join.

Hell is a place where nothing that he could join.

Hell is a place where there is nothing that he could join.

Hell is a place-there is no harm, he could join.

Hell is a place-there's nothing wrong, he could join.

Hell is a place-there's nothing wrong, it could be involved.

Hell is performed, there is nothing wrong, it can not be involved.

Hell is held, nothing is wrong, it can not be included.

Hell is being held, there is nothing wrong, it is not included.

Hell is withheld, there is nothing more evil we do not.

Helle is withheld, there is nothing like the evil we do not.

Helle is stopped, there is nothing like the evil we do not.

Helle is stopped, there is nothing as evil we do not.

Fire stopped, there is nothing as bad we did not.

Fire stopped, there is nothing wrong we did.

The fire was stopped, we did nothing wrong there.

The fire was stopped, did not do anything wrong there.

The fire is stopped, it was not anything bad.

The fire was stopped, it is not nothing wrong.

Fire was stopped, not a bad thing.

The island is a bad thing, I stopped.

The island is not a good thing I stopped.

I turned off the island is not a good thing.

I turned off the island there is a good thing.

I was off the island it is a good thing.

I was off the island is a good thing.

I was off the island, it is a good thing.

But the island was a good thing.