"I think there's a gradient that goes from science to art and magic is the middle ground. I think that we're all trying to understand and define the world around us but often it's experimental."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Vik Muniz

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“Could it be that God was an extra-terrestrial? What do we mean when we say that heaven is in the clouds? From Jesus Christ to Elvis Presley, every culture tells us of high-flying bird men who zoom around the world creating magnificent works of art and choosing willing followers to share in the eternal glory from beyond the stars. Can all these related phenomena merely be dismissed as coincidence?”
“If we want to overcome fear, we must mentally deny fear and concentrate on the opposite quality, courage. The positive always overcomes the negative. The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.”
“Tis the defect of age to rail at the pleasures of youth.”

Source : Susanna Centlivre (1872). “The perjur'd husband. The beau's duel. The gamester. The basset-table. Love at a venture. The stolen heiress”, p.205
“Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard.”
“These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort of books I was going to write. But as soon as I asked myself the question, and tried to discover some subject to which I could impart a philosophical significance of infinite value, my mind would stop like a clock, my consciousness would be faced with a blank, I would feel either that I was wholly devoid of talent or perhaps that some malady of the brain was hindering its development.”
“I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.”
“From the biography of Freud, by Irving Stone, said by Freud's fiance after he teased her for being sweet, "Beware of truly sweet people. They have will of iron.”
“Something will break very bad.”

Source : "Master of doom Marc Faber is feeling gloomy about Canada" by Darcy Keith, www.theglobeandmail.com. May 8, 2013.

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