"All I want anyone to get out of my paintings, and all I ever get out of them, is the fact that you can see the whole idea without any confusionâ€¦What you see is what you see."

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Source : Frank Stella, Robert Carleton Hobbs, Singapore Tyler Print Institute (2002). “Frank Stella in 2002”

Frank Stella

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“To a child who dies, and to the parents of this child, will you speak, if religion consoles them, in praise of atheism? That one does not mistake: that, to my mind, does not prove anything against atheism and much against religion. "The heart of a heartless world, said Marx, the soul of soulless conditions." It is misery that makes religion, and it is why this one is miserable. Who would prohibit opium to a dying man? And what are we, out of oblivion or entertainment, anything else but dying?”
“When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart. They dread the electric shock of a too sudden contact with it.”
“The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece.”

Source : James Theodore Bent, Al. N. Oikonomidēs (1965). “Aegean Islands; the Cyclades, Or; Life Among the Insular Greeks”, Chicago, Argonaut
“I want to know about what makes an athlete tick.”
“I like the moment when I break a man's ego.”
“I'm not interested in the reviews by critics over the age of 15.”
“In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you're not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.”

Source : "Q&A: Jon Kabat-Zinn Talks About Bringing Mindfulness Meditation to Medicine". Interview With Maia Szalavitz, healthland.time.com. January 11, 2012.
“Nothing funny about happy people. I don't know, you just look at a situation or a life, and you can kind of pick up the areas of conflict and delve in there, because that's where the most story is. If someone's happily married for 20 years, that's great, but it's not that funny.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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