"I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities."

-- Ad Reinhardt

#Art Quotes #Class Quotes #Chinese Quotes

“And let the truth be your delight...Proclaim it..., but with a certain congeniality.”
“A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country's good.”
“A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second.”
“You know, actors lie all the time. 'Can I ride on the horse? Are you kidding? Of course! I was born on a horse!'... It's the same with motorcycles.”

Source : "William Lucking rode many a motorcycle in films". Interview with Peter Hartlaub, www.sfgate.com. November 9, 2008.
“Don't we all have moments we'd rather forget, and thoughts we wished never came to us? We say things too awful to remember.”

Source : Randy Susan Meyers (2013). “The Comfort of Lies: A Novel”, p.304, Simon and Schuster
“...that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseperable from the perfection of the beautiful.”
“Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who participated in movements for social justice, speaking out on behalf of the workers, the poor, speaking out on behalf of racial justice. However when it came to the issue of gender they were as sexist as their conservative cohorts.”
“Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth strive; His tail takes in his teeth, and bending like a bow, That's to the compass drawn, aloft himself doth throw: Then springing at his height, as doth a little wand, That, bended end to end, and flerted from the hand, Far off itself doth cast. so does the salmon vaut. And if at first he fail, his second sommersault He instantly assays and from his nimble ring, Still yarking never leaves, Until himself he fling Above the streamful top of the surrounded heap.”

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