"With art criticism it's difficult to discuss beauty, to assess it, because there's always the possibility that we're insane."

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Peter Schjeldahl

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“To me, photography is like a quest, or a pilgrimage, or a hunt. I love painting, I love music, but photography is what has allowed me to get outside of myself.”
“Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done...”
“I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful.”

Source : "Internet pioneer Sean Parker: 'I'm blazing a new path'" By Dan Simon, www.cnn.com. September 27, 2011.
“It would be a lovely place if we didn't necessarily judge or jump to conclusions because someone wants to wear a dress or because someone wants to wear pants.”
“As with eggs, there is no such thing as a poor doctor, doctors are either good or bad.”

Source : Textbook of Medicine
“I believe that any doctor that performs an abortion, I would advocate that any doctor that performs an abortion, should be criminally charged for doing so.”
“What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.”
“Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited.”

Source : Nan Fairbrother (1954). “An English Year”

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