"Historically, art has always had a market. When one medieval fiefdom defeated another they would drag back its jewels, gold, tapestries and art objects as the spoils of war. Art equaled power, riches and culture."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Arne Glimcher

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“I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid.”
“Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease.”
“Only the footsteps of the blind are short, but their thoughts are long.”
“At the time I write, the glory of the truffle has now reached its culmination. Who would dare to say that he has been at a dinner where there was not a piÃ¨ce truffÃ©e? Who has not felt his mouth water in hearing truffles a la provencale spoken of? In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.”
“The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.”
“She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to volunteer the story, she realized, and she could just as easily choose to say nothing. But he deserved to know. They all deserved it, and Kirra already knew it, and Cammon may have guessed it, because Cammon could read souls, but Tayse was the only one she would tell.”

Source : Sharon Shinn (2006). “Mystic and Rider”, p.191, Penguin
“When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.”
“Sometimes the best coaching advice you can get is simple acknowledgement that theres nothing else you could have done.”

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