"To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter.’"
― V. S. Naipaul
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Design
More From V. S. Naipaul
- "Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe."
- "I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing."
- "What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude."
More In Design
- "While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on my travels in the Brazilian Rain forest."― John Dyer
- "My style is kind of eclectic and I don’t like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won’t see the same design."― Venus Williams
- "As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God’s design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings."― Stockwell Day