"Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant."

-- Lucretius

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“I'm not anti conceptual art. I don't think painting must be revived, exactly. Art reflects life, and our lives are full of algorithms, so a lot of people are going to want to make art that's like an algorithm. But my language is painting, and painting is the opposite of that. There's something primal about it. It's innate, the need to make marks. That's why, when you're a child, you scribble.”

Source : "Jenny Saville: 'I want to be a painter of modern life, and modern bodies'" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2012.
“I know it's simple, but my main inspiration is just my love of music. I know that sounds overly naive. But it's true.”
“Kripke says that physicalists like me can't explain the 'apparent contingency' of mind-brain identities. He maintains that, if I really believed that pains are C-fibres, then I ought no longer to have any room for the thought that 'they' might come apart. His argument is that, since pains aren't identified via some contingent description, but in terms of how they feel, I have no good way of constructing a possible world, so to speak, where C-fibres are present yet pains absent.”

Source : "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.
“Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation.”

Source : Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, p.48, Faber & Faber
“Money always has come to me, because I always have seen myself as endlessly abundant.”
“I don't need a captain's band to lead a team to victory.”
“I just love the feeling from the fans and when I'm walking on deck I can hear people screaming and wishing you the best. That puts you into the game more than anything.”

Source : Associated Press, October 10, 2003.
“The horror genre has been for me an original way of taking an explicit visual and visionary approach to directing.”

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