"No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean and the pain of what it's not."

-- Marlene Dumas

#Pain Quotes #Mean Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“I told my whole life story in my book.”
“I just have to be very, very organised.”

Source : "The phoebe factor". www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2005.
“The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.”
“I've never stunned anyone except in our D.A. lessons," said Luna, sounding mildly interested. "That was noisier than I thought it would be.”
“No battle is worth fighting except the last one.”
“Audience response to The Man From U.N.C.L.E. back in the '60s - well, I was frankly surprised by the show's success and the attendant publicity for David and myself.”
“Prior to the advent of the civilization of the Third Estate (mercantilism, capitalism), the social ethics that was religiously sanctioned in the West consisted in realizing oneâ€™s being and in achieving oneâ€™s own perfection within the fixed parameters that oneâ€™s individual nature and the group to which one belonged clearly defined. Economic activity, work, and profit were justified only in the measure in which they were necessary for sustenance and to ensure the dignity of an existence conformed to oneâ€™s own estate, without the lower instinct of self-interest or profit coming first.”
“The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.”

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