"We perceive nature through the senses, which give us images of forms of colour, sounds etc. A form which exists only in relation to another form on its own, it does not exist."

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Edouard Vuillard

#Giving Quotes #Doe Quotes #Etc Quotes

“Post-Modern space is historically specific, rooted in conventions, unlimited or ambiguous in zoning and irrational or transformational in its relation of parts to wholeâ€¦â€¦. â€¦skew or distorted spaces, created by sharp angles which exaggerate perspectiveâ€¦. â€¦always keep a mental coordinate system no matter how free- form and baroque they become. The reference plane is always an implied frontality, and the route through the building or the curvilinear elements then relate to this conceptual cage”
“I was chubby and awkward, and the only way I could really meet girls was to join children's theater, so that's what I did.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.”

Source : Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.10, Univ of California Press
“The wind in a man's face makes him wise.”

Source : Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1860). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages : and an Alphabetical Index, in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases”, p.66
“Nothing is more exciting and bonding in relationships than creating together.”
“You can "prove" anything on the verbal level, just be accepting the necessary axioms at the beginning.”
“We're designed to be hunters and we're in a society of shopping. There's nothing to kill anymore, there's nothing to fight, nothing to overcome, nothing to explore. In that societal emasculation this everyman is created.”
“History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.”

Source : "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Times" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 247), 1993.

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