"Books are the carriers of civilization... .....Books are humanity in print."

-- Barbara Tuchman

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“Edward [Weston] was the first artist - and I don't use the word lightly - to make a living doing art photography. Other photographers did commercial work, or worked for the government.”
“For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta.”
“Gags die, humor doesn't.”
“What we want is not always what we need.”
“I thought I could organise freedom/How Scandinavian of me ...”
“I haven't had writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly.”
“We regard this as a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab bloodâ€¦We condemn the assassination and the killing of an Arab holy warrior. We ask God to offer him mercy with the true believers and the martyrs.”

Source : "Mixed reaction in Mid East". Interview with Anne Barker, www.abc.net.au. May 3, 2011.
“Art matters. It is not simply a leisure activity for the privileged or a hobby for the eccentric. It is a practical good for the world. The work of the artist is an expression of hope - it is homage to the value of human life, and it is vital to society. Art is a sacred expression of human creativity that shares the same ontological ground as all human work. Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator.”

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