"Art is a way you discover the past, and so it brings the past into the present and the future. That's why we have anthropologists who dig up the art from the past. You can see the refinement in the society by the art. And people will see our lack of refinement when they dig up our art."

-- Pat Steir

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“I think when you're younger and making things, it's something that you have to fight through, to finish things. I feel like I'm past that stage, and I get the appreciation for being in that moment, and soaking it in.”
“Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.”
“Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.”
“My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.”
“I donâ€™t think teens make mistakes when they fall in love. You experience what you experience and you take away what you can from it; it is very human.”
“It is odd how one can feel like someone else early in the morning - bigger, cleaner, so much more alive.”

Source : Maureen Daly (2010). “Seventeenth Summer”, p.271, Simon and Schuster
“I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence.”

Source : "Shirin 'Ebadi – Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Laureate". Interview with Amir Taheri, www.memri.org. October 19, 2003.
“Nixon would like to consign us to to the level of the most backward countries in the whole Middle East. Why lower us to the standard of the Saudis rather than raising the Saudis to meet us?”

Source : "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 281, 1991.

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