Jean-Jacques Rousseau quotes from 'Discourse on the Origin of Inequality'
& 'The Social Contract.
* Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves
* I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery
* Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.
* The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.
* If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
* What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
* God made me and broke the mold.
* I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.
* To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
* Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
* I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature..
* The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
* To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.
* To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
* The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying 'this is mine', and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
* I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
* No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
* Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
P. s 'Freedom is the power to choose our own chains.'
Rousseau said that; 'Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.' and he wrote also that 'Freedom is the power to choose our own chains.' So he is a man of paradoxes as he wished to be. :))
K. Shiuka
( BBC doc film - on Jean-Jacques Rousseau- The Romantics - Liberty)
Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) was a German painter and writer. he studied at the School of Arts and Crafts in Hanover 1908-9 and at Dresden Academy 1909-14. Influenced by Expressionism and Cubism 1917-18. Kurt Schwitters was a key figure of modernism who spent many years living and working in the Lake District. He made some of the 20th century's most beautiful and accomplished collages, and paved the way for pop art . 
Max Ernst (1891-1976) was a German-born painter , collage artist and printmaker who was one of the leading dadaist in The dada movement . Began to study philosophy at the University of Bonn in 1909, but became increasingly preoccupied with painting; influenced by van Gogh. Ernst was Artillery officer in the First World War. The paintings of de Chirico helped to stimulate his interest in dream-like fantastic imagery, and he founded the Cologne Dada group with Baargeld and Arp 1919-21. Made collages and, later, paintings with irrational combinations of imagery. In 1922 moved to Paris, where his friendship with Andrey Breton and Eluard led to active participation in the Surrealist movement. Collage novels and illustrations, including La Femme 100 Têtes 1929 and Une Semaine de Bonté 1934. He Went to the USA as a refugee in 1941, living first in or near New York. From 1950 again lived mainly in France. Awarded the main painting prize at the 1954 Venice Biennale. Died in Paris.
Collage art creates an art experience that invites the viewer to meta-reflect on the act of watching a movie or read a story. 
The tiny cement figurines/sculptures have begun appearing on the streets of London. The street artist responsible is Isaac Cordal, who originally hails from Spain but is currently based in London. 
(Isaac Cordal "Follow the leaders." )
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Oxford University women's rugby team stripped down to just their rugby boots and socks for the black and white photographs taken around the city to raise cash for charity. Women's Rugby & Football Club (OUWRFC) present their first ever naked calendar which features current members of the team on the pitch, in the gym, in the library, and around Oxford. The calendar is being sold for £10 to raise money for Mind Your Head, Oxford's mental health awareness campaign. 
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