"Illusions as bad as mine make people aware of the fallacies of visual information and the pleasure to be derived from such fallacies."

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Source : Vik Muniz, Charles Stainback, Mark Alice Durant (1998). “Vik Muniz: seeing is believing”

Vik Muniz

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“For once in my career, I won't have to hold anybody's hand and they won't have to hold mine. I'm surrounded by veterans. We had a great battle last Thursday at HealthPoint. It was something I never had before - three, four, really great players all in one pickup game.”
“As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot be expressed in any other way, or certainly not as beautifully.”

Source : Luciano Pavarotti (1995). “Pavarotti, My World”, Crown Pub
“Germany is very free-trade oriented.”
“Air and Water can just swirl around being swirly, and Fire is just kind of aggressive, but my gut feeling is that Earth needs to work for a living. Earth has stuff to be doing. Earth is busy. Earth is solid and responsible and works hard. Earth is reliable. Earth is the designated driver of the elements and will always come over and feed the cat when you're out of town.”
“I don't ever want to grow up. I guess I'm like Peter Pan. Grown-ups have problems. I want to stay happy.”
“Be careful what you say to your children. They may agree with you.”
“I'm actually a very moral guy.”
“Let us have an education, that shall practically develop our thinking faculties and manhood; and then, and only then, shall we be able to vie with our oppressors, go where we may . . .”

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