"The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer."

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Source : "Old masters and new friends" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2003.

Arthur Smith

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“It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment became less important.”
“I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be - although I think he had more going on under the surface as well.”
“Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.”
“You need to be smart about what you put in your body.”
“Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able to tell that something extraordinary happened at the moment in time that counts for us as today. This is the case even though a hundred million years from now, all that we consider to be the great works of manâ€”the sculptures and the libraries, the monuments and the museums, the cities and the factoriesâ€”will be compressed into a layer of sediment not much thicker than a cigarette paper.”

Source : Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.64, Bloomsbury Publishing
“I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as this Writ of Assistance is.”
“The speculators deadly enemies are: Ignorance, greed, fear and hope. All the statute books in the world and all the rules of all the Exchanges on earth cannot eliminate these from the human animal.”

Source : Edwin Lefevre (2013). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.477, Lulu Press, Inc
“I have three goddaughters - I'm not sure why they trust me, because I have no experience with children - but I try.”

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