"Art is significant deformity."

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Source : Quoted in VirginiaWoolf, Roger Fry (1940)

Roger Fry

#Art Quotes #Significant Quotes #Deformity Quotes

“The slender, swift Bruce Lee was the Fred Astaire of martial arts, and many of the fights that could be merely brutal come across as lightning-fast choreography.”
“Someone who can search for something is happy. Searching gives a meaning to life. Nowadays itâ€™s not so easy to find something you might be looking for. The most important thing, however, is the search itself, the way you take. Itâ€™s not so important where it leads. thatâ€™s why my characters are always looking for something, maybe only a cat, a sheep or a wife, but that is at least the beginning of a story.”
“The people who have sacrificed their view in order to get to the top have very often left no footprints in the sands of time.”
“Just like every other kid in my grade school, I was listening to my little radio plug in my ear when Mickey Mantle hit 18 post-season homers and won series after series for the Yankees. I listened and I learned from that. I think he was the original 'Mr. October,' but thank god it didn't stick.”
“I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a heritage of culture and values and not of bombs and missiles... How can a nation allow a regime to instill fear, take away the people's freedom and shock the young generation that seeks its way out of the dictatorial Iran.”
“Ohhh, I'm in luv, I'm in luv I'm in luv, I'm in luv wit chu And there ain't nothin nobody can say cuz You're the one for me baby”
“You live it forward, but understand it backward.”

Source : Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.11, Random House India
“Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak.”

Source : Eliot Weinberger (2000). “Anonymous Sources: A Talk on Translators and Translation : Lecture”

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