"It is true that I should have been surprised in the past to learn that Professor Hardy had joined the Oxford Group. But one could not say the adverse chance was 1:10. Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad, and then this particular event would be quite likely."

-- John Edensor Littlewood

#Past Quotes #Oxford Quotes #Mad Quotes

“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?”
“I like auditioning! A lot of people hate it, but I like it.”
“The news of my pregnancy spread like a forest fire in summer”
“It was like I existed in a kind of parallel universe, thinking thoughts and feelings that no one else understood.”
“Some people`s photography is an art. Mine is not. If they happen to be exhibited in a gallery or a museum, that`s fine. But that`s not why I do them. I`m a gun for hire.”
“Since there is no such thing as absolute rightness and truth, we always pursue the artificial, leading, human truth. We judge and make a truth that excludes other truths. Art plays a formative part in this manufacture of truth.”

Source : FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from May 08, 2014
“Again and again I've taken quick glances and then for some reason I've got to sit before a picture waiting and it's opened up like one of those Japanese flowers that you put into water and something I thought wasn't worth more than a casual, respectful glance begins to open up depth after depth of meaning.”
“There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away like a conversation.”

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