Art
In 1972, he claimed to be visited by an angel who warned him that the end of world was coming soon. Armstrong began to construct various "doomsday calendar" calculating machines that would attempt to determine the exact date. Many of the calendars are made of wood and have clocklike designs with hands used to calculate dates.
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Famous quotes containing the word art:
“The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)
“Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)
“When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell’s major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)