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Charles Sheeler

"Every age manifests itself by some external evidence. In a period such as ours when only a comparatively few individuals seem to be given to religion, some form other than the Gothic cathedral must be found. Industry concerns the greatest numbers-it may be true, as has been said, that our factories are our substitute for religious expression."

Source : Charles Brock, Charles Sheeler, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), Art Institute of Chicago, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum (2006). “Charles Sheeler: across media”, University of California Press

Charles Sheeler

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“You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.”
“Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.”

Source : Lillian Eugenia Smith (1954). “The journey”, World Publishing Company
“I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.”
“It's where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this. Plus it's not a purse, it's called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.”
“Nobody can make more fun of me than I already make of myself.”
“Primate books are good for us. They remind us that we're primates, too. And the embarrassing primate books are best. Macachiavellian Intelligence is an excellently embarrassing primate book, and just the thing to make us blush and shuffle our feet.”
“It is my wish to die of unique causes, perhaps in a high-speed tricycle crash, a bizarre stapling incient, or as a result of inadvertently sucking my brains out through my ear while trying to untwist the vacuum hose.”
“Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity.”

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