"Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I'd love to see a museum mount a small show of Kinkade's work. I would like the art world and the wider world to argue about him in public, out in the open."

-- Jerry Saltz

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“Has my heart gone to sleep? Have the beehives of my dreams stopped working, the waterwheel of the mind run dry, scoops turning empty, only shadow inside? No, my heart is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. Not asleep, not dreamingâ€” its eyes are opened wide watching distant signals, listening on the rim of vast silence”

Source : Antonio Machado, Alan S. Trueblood (1982). “Antonio Machado”, p.93, Harvard University Press
“Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.”
“Migration is an expression of the human aspiration for dignity, safety and a better future. It is part of the social fabric, part of our very make-up as a human family”
“Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence.”
“In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by the historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.”
“I believe the Scriptures teach that there's a literal heaven and a literal hell, just like Jesus said. And without forgiveness of sins that, yeah, the place of punishment is called hell.”
“The AMA puts the lives and well being of the American citizens well below it's own special interest...It deserves to be ignored, rejected, and forgotten. No amount of historical gymnastics can hide the public record of AMA opposition to virtually every major health reform in the past 50 years....The AMA has turned into a propaganda organ purveying 'medical politics' for deceiving the Congress, the people, and the doctors of America themselves.”
“Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.”

Source : Eleanor Catton (2013). “The Luminaries”, p.260, Granta Books

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