"It takes a long time for the gleam in the eye to turn into something solid."

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Source : "Howard Hodgkin: the Later, Greater Hodgkin". Interview with Karen Wright, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 05, 2008.

Howard Hodgkin

#Eye Quotes #Long Quotes #Gleam Quotes

“The need to assure that every child has the opportunity afforded by good teachers is urgent. As urgent as the need to be well nourished and for exactly the same reason. A child's growth depends on it.”
“I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.”
“People keep framing this as a religious freedom issue, but there's a difference between practicing your religion - which everyone has the right to do - and rubbing your religion in people's faces as a triumphalist political statement, which is what's happening here.”

Source : YouTube Chanel "Pat Condell"/ "Bad Faith At Ground Zero", www.youtube.com. August 28, 2010.
“India, she now knew, would not be content staying in the background, was nobody's wallpaper, insisted in interjecting itself into everyone's life, meddling with it, twisting it, molding it beyond recognition. India, she had found out, was a place of political intrigue and economic corruption, a place occupied by real people with their incessantly human needs, desires, ambitions, and aspirations, and not the exotic, spiritual, mysterious entity that was a creation of the Western imagination.”
“The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.”
“How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?”
“When I taught, all my best students were women.”
“Everyone has options. They are a fixed set of predetermined scenarios, points of view, perceived limitations that already reside in your data bank. If you depend on your options to formulate your future, that future will be no more than a rearrangement of your past. Then he says, â€œPossibilities are completely different. When you ask â€˜what is possible?â€™ you must stretch your imagination out of the confines of the familiar. To live a life beyond the mediocre, ask not â€˜what are my options?â€™ but â€˜What is possible?â€™”

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